Luke 19:46
Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
KJV
λέγων αὐτοῖς· γέγραπται· καὶ ἔσται ὁ οἶκός μου οἶκος προσευχῆς· ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτὸν ἐποιήσατε σπήλαιον λῃστῶν.
Greek NT
dicens illis : Scriptum est : Quia domus mea domus orationis est : vos autem fecistis illam speluncam latronum.
Vulgate
saying unto them, It is written, And my house shall be a house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of robbers.
ASV
Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Isa 56:7 · paraphrase"Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people."Isaiah: my house shall be a house of prayer — Luke's temple cleansing
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- Καὶ ἔσται — SBLGNT
- Καὶ ἔσται — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- προσευχῆς — SBLGNT
- προσευχῆς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ἐστίν — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Ezek 43:12 — This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
- Isa 1:23 — Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
- Isa 56:7 — Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an
- Isa 56:7 — Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an
- Jer 7:11 — Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
- Mark 11:17 — And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
- Matt 21:13 — And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
- Matt 23:13 — But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
- Ps 93:5 — Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.