46Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
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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.
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.
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 41-48)The great Ambassador from heaven is here making his public entry into Jerusalem, not to be respected there, but to be rejected ; he knew what a nest of vipers he was throwing himself into, and yet see here two instances of his love to that place and his concern for it. I. The tears he shed for the approaching ruin of the city (Luke 19:41): When he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over i…
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