He entered into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”
He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.