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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!"
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A House for All Nations
Commentators stress that Jesus's anger was specifically about the exclusion of non-Jews. By quoting Isaiah 56:7, "a house of prayer for all the nations," Jesus condemned the temple authorities for turning the Court of the Gentiles—the only place non-Jews could worship—into a noisy marketplace. This act physically and spiritually blocked the nations from accessing God.
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For all the nations (πασιν τοις εθνεσιν). Mark alone has this phrase from Isa 56:7; Jeremiah 7:11. The people as well a…
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