◄ Mark 11:17 ►
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Good News Translation
He then taught the people: "It is written in the Scriptures that God said, 'My Temple will be called a house of prayer for the people of all nations.' But you have turned it into a hideout for thieves!"

New Revised Standard Version
He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

Contemporary English Version
Then he taught the people and said, "The Scriptures say, 'My house should be called a place of worship for all nations.' But you have made it a place where robbers hide!"

New American Bible
Then he taught them saying, “Is it not written: ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples’? But you have made it a den of thieves.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves.

Is it.

1 Kings 8:41-48 Moreover also the stranger, who is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name's sake, (for they shall hear every where of thy great name, and thy mighty hand, . . .

Isaiah 56:7 I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them joyful in my house of prayer: their holocausts, and their victims shall please me upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all nations.

Isaiah 60:7 All the flocks of Cedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nabaioth shall minister to thee: they shall be offered upon my acceptable altar, and I will glorify the house of my majesty.

Luke 19:46 Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.

of all nations the house of prayer.

Jeremiah 7:11 Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the Lord.

Hosea 12:7 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

John 2:16 And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.

Context
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
…16And he suffered not that any man should carry a vessel through the temple. 17And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves. 18Which when the chief priests and the scribes had heard, they sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because the whole multitude was in admiration at his doctrine.…
Cross References
Isaiah 56:7
I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them joyful in my house of prayer: their holocausts, and their victims shall please me upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all nations.

Jeremiah 7:11
Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the Lord.

Mark 11:16
And he suffered not that any man should carry a vessel through the temple.

Luke 19:46
Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.

John 2:14
And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

Mark 11:16
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