Mat 21:12-17, Mar 11:15-19, Joh 2:13-22 | ISV | STEP | Jesus Throws the Merchants and Moneychangers out of the Temple Then Jesus went into the temple, threw out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.

Matthew 21:12-17

12 Jesus Throws the Merchants and Moneychangers out of the Temple Mark 11:15-19; Luke 19:45-48; John 2:13-22Then Jesus went into the temple, ^{▼▼Other mss. read temple of God} threw out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.Deut 14:25; Mark 11:11; Luke 19:45; John 2:15 13 He told them, “It is written, ‘My house is to be called a house of prayer,’ ^{▼▼Isa 56:7; Jer 7:11} but you are turning it into a hideout ^{▼▼Lit. cave} for bandits!”Isa 56:7; Jer 7:11; Mark 11:17; Luke 19:46

14 Blind and lame people came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the high priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he had done and the children shouting in the temple, “Hosanna ^{▼▼Hosanna is Heb. for Please save or Praise.} to the Son of David,” they became furious 16 and asked him, “Do you hear what these people are saying?”

Jesus said to them, “Yes! Haven't you ever read, ‘From the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have created praise’?” ^{▼▼Ps 8:2}Ps 8:2 17 Then he left them and went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.Mark 11:11; John 11:18

Mark 11:15-19

15 Jesus Throws the Merchants and Moneychangers out of the Temple Matthew 21:12-17; Luke 19:45-48; John 2:13-22When they came to Jerusalem, he went into the temple and began to throw out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple. He overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.Matt 21:12; Luke 19:45; John 2:14 16 He wouldn't even let anyone carry a vessel through the temple.

17 Then he began to teach them, saying, “It is written, is it not, ‘My house is to be called a house of prayer for all nations’? ^{▼▼Isa 56:7; Jer 7:11} But you have turned it into a hideout ^{▼▼Lit. cave} for bandits!”Isa 56:7; Jer 7:11 18 When the high priests and elders heard this, they began to look for a way to kill him. For they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.Matt 7:28; 21:45-46; Mark 1:22; Luke 4:32; 19:47 19 When evening came, Jesus and his disciples ^{▼▼Lit. came, they} would leave the city.

John 2:13-22

13 Jesus Throws Merchants and Moneychangers out of the Temple Matthew 21:12-13; Mark 11:15-17; Luke 19:45-46The Jewish Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.Exod 12:14; Deut 16:1, 16; John 5:1; 6:4; 11:55; 16:23 14 In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.Matt 21:12; Mark 11:15; Luke 19:45 15 Making a whip out of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the moneychangers and knocked over their tables.

16 Then he told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!”Luke 2:49 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.” ^{▼▼Ps 69:9}Ps 69:9

18 Then the Jews said to him, “What sign can you show us as authority for doing these things?”Matt 12:38; John 6:30

19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will rebuild it.”Matt 26:61; 27:40; Mark 14:58; 15:29

20 The Jews said, “This sanctuary has been under construction for forty-six years, and you're going to rebuild it in three days?” 21 But the sanctuary he was speaking about was his own body.1Cor 3:16; 6:19; 2Cor 6:16; Col 2:9; Heb 8:2 22 After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made. ^{▼▼Lit. spoken}Luke 24:8