A House of Prayer

Jesus Enters Jerusalem Praised · Mark 11

Story guide: Jesus beside an overturned table as merchants guide animals out and waiting families enter the temple court. This shared image is not a scene-for-scene rendering of Mark 11:15-19.

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15And they came to Jerusalem. And entering the temple, he began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.

16And he would not allow anyone to carry a vessel through the temple courts.

17And he was teaching and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

18And the chief priests and the scribes heard it, and they were seeking how they might destroy him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was astonished at his teaching.

19And whenever evening came, they would go out of the city.

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