The Cleansing of the Temple

12 And Jesus entered the temple courts[fn] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves. 13 And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[fn] but you have made it a cave of robbers!”

14 And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple courts[fn] and he healed them. 15 But when[fn] the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderfulthings that he did, and the children shouting in the temple courts[fn] and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant. 16 And they said to him, “Do you hear what these children[fn] are saying?” So Jesus said to them, “Yes, have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing babies you have prepared for yourself praise’?”[fn] 17 And leaving them, he went outside of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.