Jesus Cleanses His Father's House
12Jesus entered the temple courts[] and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. 13He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’[] but you are making it a den of robbers!”[] 14The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonders he performed and heard the children calling out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant. 16They said to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?”
“Yes,” Jesus told them, “Have you never read,
“From the lips of little children and nursing babies
you have prepared praise?”[] 17He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.