Matthew 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.
KJV
καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς· γέγραπται· ὁ οἶκός μου οἶκος προσευχῆς κληθήσεται, ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτὸν ποιεῖτε σπήλαιον λῃστῶν.
Greek NT
et dicit eis : Scriptum est : Domus mea domus orationis vocabitur : vos autem fecistis illam speluncam latronum.
Vulgate
and he saith unto them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but ye make it a den of robbers.
ASV
And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called 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.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καλέω
kaleo
verb · 148×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λῃστής
lestes
noun · 15×
οἶκος
oikos
noun · 115×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
προσευχή
proseuche
noun · 36×
σπήλαιον
spelaion
noun · 6×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 2 earlier texts.
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Isa 56:7 · adapted"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 called a house of prayer — temple cleansing
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Jer 7:11 · adapted"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."Jeremiah: den of robbers — combined with Isaiah at temple cleansing
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: ποιεῖτε | WH/Treg/NIV: ποιεῖτε | RP: ἐποιήσατε
- ποιεῖτε — SBLGNT
- ποιεῖτε — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐποιήσατε — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§584Jesus went up to the Temple as the privileged place of encounter with God. For him, the Temple was the dwelling of his Father, a house of prayer, and he was angered that its outer court had become a place of commerce.353 He drove merchants out of it because of jealous love for his Father: "You shall not make my Father's house a house of trade. His disciples remembered that it w…
Proofs from the plain testimony of Moses, and of the other prophets, whose words are the words of Christ, that there is But one God, the founder of the world, whom Our Lord preached, and whom He called His Father. 1. Moses, therefore, making a recapitulation of the whole law, which he had received from the Creator (Demiurge), thus speaks in Deuteronomy: Give ear, O you heavens,…
21. Those indulgence preachers are in error who say that a man is absolved from every penalty and saved by papal indulgences. 27. They preach only human doctrines who say that as soon as the money clinks into the money chest, the soul flies out of purgatory. 28. It is certain that when money clinks in the money chest, greed and avarice can be increased; but when the church inte…
Cross-references
- 1Tim 6:5 — Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
- Exod 20:15 — Thou shalt not steal.
- 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.
- 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.
- John 2:16 — And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.
- John 10:10 — The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
- John 15:25 — But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
- Lev 19:30 — Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ps 93:5 — Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.