Matthew 21:12

Cleansing the Temple

21:12 Then ¹  Jesus entered the temple area ²  and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, ³  and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

Matthew 21:14-15

21:14 The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them. 21:15 But when the chief priests and the experts in the law ⁴  saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts, ⁵  “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant

Matthew 21:23

The Authority of Jesus

21:23 Now after Jesus ⁶  entered the temple courts, ⁷  the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority ⁸  are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

² tn Grk “the temple.”

³ tn Grk “the temple.”

⁴ tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

⁵ tn Grk “crying out in the temple [courts] and saying.” The participle λέγοντας (legontas) is somewhat redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.

⁷ tn Grk “he.”

⁸ tn Grk “the temple.”

⁹ tn On this phrase, see BDAG 844 s.v. ποῖος 2.a.γ.1