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Matthew 21:12
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10 aAnd when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, “Who is this?”  
11 So the multitudes said, “This is Jesus, athe prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.”  

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

12 aThen Jesus went into the temple1 of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the bmoney changers and the seats of those who sold doves.  
13 And He said to them, “It is written, a‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a b‘den of thieves.’ ”  
14 Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.
15 But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the aSon of David!” they were indignant  
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Matthew 21:12

Cast out (ecebalen). Drove out, assumed authority over "the temple of God" (probably correct text with tou qeou, though only example of the phrase). John (John 2:14) has a similar incident at the beginning of the ministry of Jesus. It is not impossible that he should repeat it at the close after three years with the same abuses in existence again. It is amazing how short a time the work of reformers lasts. The traffic went on in the court of the Gentiles and to a certain extent was necessary. Here the tables of

the money-changers (twn kollubistwn, from kollubov, a small coin) were overturned. See on Matthew 17:24 for the need of the change for the temple tax. The doves were the poor man's offering.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 21:12:

Mark 11:11
Mark 11:15
Luke 19:23
Luke 19:45
John 2:14
John 2:15
John 4:8

 

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