Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Matthew 21:13
It is written. In Isaiah 56:7.
A house of prayer. A place of sacred worship.
A den of thieves. A cave or den of robbers. The language indicates
that it was a corrupt and fraudulent traffic, which a corrupt and
fraudulent priesthood had permitted to encroach on the worship of God.
It is a desecration of religious institutions to use them for worldly
gain.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 21:13
Mark 11:15-19
Luke 19:28-40
Luke 19:45
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