Luke 19:46
Saying 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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Gill's Exposition
And could not find what they might do,.... The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, and so Beza's most ancient copy, add, "to him"; they could not find an opportunity of seizing him, nor any…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
My house is the house of prayer Isa 56:7. See on Luk 1:10; Luk 18:10.
a den of thieves Rather, a brigands" cave. Our Lord had seen many of these brigands" caves on the steep rocky sides of the Wady…
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