Matthew 21:13 "It is written," he said to them, "'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a 'den of robbers.'"

Matthew 21:13

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New International Version (©1984)
"It is written," he said to them, "'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a 'den of robbers.'"

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And He said to them, "It is written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER'; but you are making it a ROBBERS' DEN."

International Standard Version (©2008)
He told them, "It is written, 'My house is to be called a house of prayer,' but you are turning it into a hideout for bandits!"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He told them, "Scripture says, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you're turning it into a gathering place for thieves!"

King James Bible
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

American King James Version
And said to them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.

American Standard Version
and he saith unto them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but ye make it a den of robbers.

Bible in Basic English
And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.

Darby Bible Translation
And he says to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of robbers.

English Revised Version
and he saith unto them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but ye make it a den of robbers.

Webster's Bible Translation
And said to them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Weymouth New Testament
"It is written," He said, "'My House shall be called the House of Prayer', but you are making it a robbers' cave."

World English Bible
He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"

Young's Literal Translation
and he saith to them, 'It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'

Geneva Study Bible

And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

People's New Testament

21:13 It is written. In Isa 56:7.

A house of prayer. A place of sacred worship.

A den of thieves. A cave or den of robbers. The language indicates that it was a corrupt and fraudulent traffic, which a corrupt and fraudulent priesthood had permitted to encroach on the worship of God. It is a desecration of religious institutions to use them for worldly gain.

21:13 A den of thieves - A proverbial expression, for a harbour of wicked men. Isa 56:7; Jer 7:11.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:12-17 Christ found some of the courts of the temple turned into a market for cattle and things used in the sacrifices, and partly occupied by the money-changers. Our Lord drove them from the place, as he had done at his entering upon his ministry, Joh 2:13-17. His works testified of him more than the hosannas; and his healing in the temple was the fulfilling the promise, that the glory of the latter house should be greater than the glory of the former. If Christ came now into many parts of his visible church, how many secret evils he would discover and cleanse! And how many things daily practised under the cloak of religion, would he show to be more suitable to a den of thieves than to a house of prayer!

Isaiah 56:7 Even those I will bring to My holy mountain And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar; For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples."

Jeremiah 7:11 "Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it," declares the LORD. (NASB ©1995)

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And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

It is. 2:5 Joh 15:25

My. Ps 93:5 Isa 56:7

ye. Jer 7:11 Mr 11:17 Lu 19:46

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