Mark 11:17
Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Note Isaiah 56:7
Note Jeremiah 7:11
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.
He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers!”
And he taught, and said unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but ye have made it a den of robbers.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Is it
- 1 Kings 8:41–48; Isaiah 56:7; Isaiah 60:7; Luke 19:46
- of all nations the house of prayer
- or, an house of prayerfor all nations. a den.
- Jeremiah 7:11; Hosea 12:7; John 2:16