And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.And he was teaching them and saying to them,“ Is it not written,‘ My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.
As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.
The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.And he told those who sold the pigeons,“ Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”His disciples remembered that it was written,“ Zeal for your house will consume me.”