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He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers!”

Mark 11:17 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીમાર્ક ૧૧:૧૭
તેઓને બોધ કરતાં ઈસુએ કહ્યું કે, ‘શું એમ લખેલું નથી કે, મારું ઘર સર્વ દેશનાઓને સારું પ્રાર્થનાનું ઘર કહેવાશે? પણ તમે તો તેને લૂંટારાઓનું કોતર કર્યું છે.’”
हिन्दीमरकुस ११:१७
और उपदेश करके उनसे कहा, “क्या यह नहीं लिखा है, कि मेरा घर सब जातियों के लिये प्रार्थना का घर कहलाएगा? पर तुम ने इसे डाकुओं की खोह बना दी है।” (लूका 19:46, यिर्म. 7:11)

In context

15They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

16He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.

17He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers!”

18The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

19When evening came, he went out of the city.

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