And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are turning it into a den of robbers!”

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!”

I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,

Then he began to teach them and said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”