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Mark 11:17

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17And he began to teachf and was saying to them, “Is it not written,

‘My house will be called a house of prayer

for all the nations,’g

but you have made it a cave of robbers!”

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Footnotes

  1. fThe imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to teach”)
  2. gA quotation from Isa 56:7

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He was teaching them: “Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves!”

NLTNew Living Translation

He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.”

KJV 1900King James Version

And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.