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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!”

Matthew 21:13 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતીમાથ્થી ૨૧:૧૩
ઈસુએ તેઓને કહ્યું કે, “મારું ઘર પ્રાર્થનાનું ઘર કહેવાશે,’ એમ લખેલું છે, પણ તમે એને લૂંટારાઓનું કોતર બનાવ્યું છે.”
हिन्दीमत्ती २१:१३
और उनसे कहा, “लिखा है, ‘मेरा घर प्रार्थना का घर कहलाएगा’; परन्तु तुम उसे डाकुओं की खोह बनाते हो।”

In context

11The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

12Jesus entered into the temple of God and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

13He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”

14The lame and the blind came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

15But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,

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