56:7 I will bring them to my holy mountain;
I will make them happy in the temple where people pray to me. 5
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar,
for my temple will be known as a temple where all nations may pray.” 6
19:45 Then 14 Jesus 15 entered the temple courts 16 and began to drive out those who were selling things there, 17 19:46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ 18 but you have turned it into a den 19 of robbers!” 20
1 tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”
2 tn Heb “name.” See the note on “reputation” in v. 32.
3 tn Heb “fear.”
4 tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.
5 tn Heb “in the house of my prayer.”
6 tn Heb “for my house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”
7 sn A quotation from Isa 56:7.
8 tn Or “a hideout” (see L&N 1.57).
9 sn A quotation from Jer 7:11. The meaning of Jesus’ statement about making the temple courts a den of robbers probably operates here at two levels. Not only were the religious leaders robbing the people financially, but because of this they had also robbed them spiritually by stealing from them the opportunity to come to know God genuinely. It is possible that these merchants had recently been moved to this location for convenience.
10 tn The imperfect ἐδίδασκεν (edidasken) is here taken ingressively.
11 sn A quotation from Isa 56:7.
12 tn Or “a hideout” (see L&N 1.57).
13 sn A quotation from Jer 7:11. The meaning of Jesus’ statement about making the temple courts a den of robbers probably operates here at two levels. Not only were the religious leaders robbing the people financially, but because of this they had also robbed them spiritually by stealing from them the opportunity to come to know God genuinely. It is possible that these merchants had recently been moved to this location for convenience.
14 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
15 tn Grk “he.”
16 tn Grk “the temple” (also in v. 47).
17 sn Matthew (21:12-27), Mark (11:15-19) and Luke (here, 19:45-46) record this incident of the temple cleansing at the end of Jesus’ ministry. John (2:13-16) records a cleansing of the temple at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. See the note on the word temple courts in John 2:14 for a discussion of the relationship of these accounts to one another.
18 sn A quotation from Isa 56:7.
19 tn Or “a hideout” (see L&N 1.57).
20 sn A quotation from Jer 7:11. The meaning of Jesus’ statement about making the temple courts a den of robbers probably operates here at two levels. Not only were the religious leaders robbing the people financially, but because of this they had also robbed them spiritually by stealing from them the opportunity to come to know God genuinely. It is possible that these merchants had recently been moved to this location for convenience.
21 tn Or (perhaps) “Stop making.”
22 tn Or “a house of merchants” (an allusion to Zech 14:21).