15 (A)But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, (B)“Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; (C)have you never read,

(D)“‘Out of the mouth of (E)infants and nursing babies
    you have prepared praise’?”

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15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,”(A) they were indignant.(B)

16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.

“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,

“‘From the lips of children and infants
    you, Lord, have called forth your praise’[a]?”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 (see Septuagint)