15And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,
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And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples. …
And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)When Christ came into Jerusalem, he did not go up to the court or the palace, though he came in as a King, but into the temple ; for his kingdom is spiritual, and not of this world ; it is in holy things that he rules, in the temple of God that he exercises authority. Now, what did he do there? I. Thence he drove the buyers and sellers. Abuses must first be purged out, and the plants not of God’s…
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