King James Version (KJV)
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.›”
Verse in context — Luke 19
44
‹And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.›
45
And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;
46
Saying unto them, ‹It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.›
47
And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
48
And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
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