It is written. It standeth written.
My house, &c.. composite quotation from Isaiah 56:7, and Jeremiah 7:11. See App-107 and App-117.
thieves. robbers. Same word as in Matthew 27:38; Matthew 27:44.
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Matthew 21:13
13 And said unto them,It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.