Robertson's Word Pictures of the NT
Matthew 21:13
A den of robbers
(σπηλαιον ληιστων). By charging exorbitant prices.
A den of robbers
(σπηλαιον ληιστων). By charging exorbitant prices.
Verse Matthew 21:13. _MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED THE HOUSE OF PRAYER_] This is taken from Isaiah 56:7. _BUT YE HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES._] This is taken from Jeremiah 7:11. O
This paragraph contains the account of the barren fig-tree, and of the cleansing of the temple. See also Mark 11:12; Luke 19:45. Matthew 21:12 And Jesus went into
9. THE KING ENTERS INTO JERUSALEM. The Parables of the Two Sons and the Householder and His Vineyard. CHAPTER 21 1. The King Enters Jerusalem. (Matthew 21:1 .) 2. The Second Cleansing of the Temple...
THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE (Mark 11:15 *, Luke 19:45; John 2:13). Mt. here omits the first part of Mk.'s divided account of the figtree, and links the Temple incident with the entry. It is the temple...
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST ACT (Matthew 21:1-11)...
And Jesus entered into the precincts of the Temple of God, and cast out all who were selling and buying in the Temple precincts, and overturned the tables of the money-changers, and of those who were...
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;...
_My house shall be called the house of prayer_ Isaiah 56:7, "Mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people," or for all nations, _not_of all nations (Mark). _a den of thieves_ Rather, A...
The Second Cleansing of the Temple Mark 11:15-18; Luke 19:45-46. It is clear from the other Synoptists that the Cleansing of the Temple took place on Nisan 10, not on the day of the entry. St Mark s...
THE SECOND CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE Mark 11:15-18; Luke 19:45-46 It is clear from the other Synoptists that the Cleansing of the Temple took place on Nisan 10, not on the day of the entry. St Mark say...
ΠΟΙΕΙ͂ΤΕ (א B L) for ἐποιήσατε (C D E and the later uncials). 13. ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ. See note, ch. Matthew 2:5. Ὁ ΟἾΚΟΣ Κ.Τ.Λ. The passage is quoted from Isaiah 56:7, but, with the omission of the words πᾶσι...
Ver 10. And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? 11. And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. 12. And Jesus went into the temp...
_WITH THE FINISH IN SIGHT JESUS ENTERED JERUSALEM AND CLEANSED THE TEMPLE MATTHEW 21:1-17:_ One of the great statements from this section concerned the donkey and colt, "The Lord has need of them." Yo...
ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125) писать. _Perf._ означает: "продолжает быть написано" (ММ), ΚΛΗΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΚΑΛΈΩ (G2564) звать, ΠΟΙΕΊΤΕ _praes. ind. act., см._ Matthew...
BUT YE HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES— The Jews, reckoning the lower and outer court of the temple as a place of no sanctity, because it was designed for accommodatingthe Gentile proselytes in their wo...
SECTION 55 JESUS CLEANSES THE TEMPLE A LAST TIME AND RECEIVES WORSHIP OF CHILDREN (Parallels: Mark 11:15-19; Luke 19:45-48) TEXT: 21:12-17 12 And. Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast out...
And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? For the exposition, see Luke 19:1 after 5:44; and the notes at Mark 11:12. Now commences, as Alford remarks, that...
12 His first act as King was to cleanse the temple of idolatry, for covetousness is nothing less (Col_3:5). The temple tax, or double drachma (Mat_17:24) had to be paid by even the poorest of the peop...
21:13 written, (b-8) Isaiah 56:7 . robbers. (c-26) Jeremiah 7:11 ....
Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 7:11. 14-16. Peculiar to St. Matthew....
CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. HOSANNAS OF THE CHILDREN (Mark 11:15; Luke 19:45). In St. Matthew this event seems to take place on Palm Sunday, but Mark 11:11 makes it clear that it did not occur till next...
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE Chronology of the Last Week of Christ's Life, commonly called Holy Week (chiefly after Hastings' 'Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels'). Sabbath, Nisan 8...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 21 JESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM 21:1-11 V1 As they came nearer to Jerusalem, they reached the town called Bethphage. It was on the Mount o...
IT IS WRITTEN. — The words which our Lord quotes are a free combination of two prophetic utterances: one from Isaiah’s vision of the future glory of the Temple, as visited both by Jew and Gentile (Isa...
γέγραπται, it stands written, in Isaiah 56:7; from the Sept [115] but with omission of πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, retained in Mk., and a peculiarly appropriate expression in the circumstances, the abuse cond...
_Jesus visits the Temple_ (Mark 11:11; Mark 11:15-19; Luke 19:45-48)....
THE LORD OF THE TEMPLE Matthew 21:8-17 It was only a crowd of poor people who escorted Jesus on Palm Sunday to the Holy City; but they sent their hosannas upward to the highest, and their shouts of a...
In this cleansing of the Temple for the second time-He had done the same at the outset of His ministry- the Lord revealed His conception of the secret of all civic righteousness and strength. He revea...
My house shall. That man is a thief, and turns the temple of God into a den of thieves, who makes religion a cloak for his avarice. Of all the innumerable miracles which Jesus performed, none appear g...
THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE Matthew 21:12-13; Luke 19:45-48; Mark 11:15-19. “And they came into Jerusalem; and Jesus, coming into the temple, began to cast out the buyers and sellers in the temple, an...
"And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, (13) And said un...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
13._It is written. _Christ quotes two passages taken out of two Prophets; the one from Isaiah 56:7, and the other from Jeremiah 7:11. What _was written _by Isaiah agreed with the circumstances of the...
Afterwards (chapter 21), disposing of all that belonged to His willing people, He makes His entry into Jerusalem as King and Lord, according to the testimony of Zechariah. But although entering as Kin...
AND SAID UNTO THEM, IT IS WRITTEN,.... In Isaiah 56:7. MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED THE HOUSE OF PRAYER. These are the, words of God, calling the temple his house, which was built according to the plan h...
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. Ver. 13. _Shall be called the house of prayer_] A principal piece of God's publi...
Mat. 21:12-16. _Concerning making Christ's house a den of thieves, etc._ The apostate Jewish church that was in Christ's time, was in many things an image of the apostate Christian church, or rather t...
_And Jesus went into the temple_ He did not go up to the court, or to the palace, though he came in as a king; but to the temple; for his kingdom is spiritual, and not of this world. It is in holy thi...
WRITTEN; ISAIAH 56:7....
AND SAID UNTO THEM, MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED THE HOUSE OF PRAYER; BUT YE HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES. During the first days of this, His last week in lowliness on earth, Jesus made Bethany His headq...
CHRIST VISITS THE TEMPLE....
It is a moment of most serious significance as the Lord is now about to enter Jerusalem. He is to be publicly presented to Israel, yet in lowly grace, not in power and majesty. Two of His disciples ar...
12-17 Christ found some of the courts of the temple turned into a market for cattle and things used in the sacrifices, and partly occupied by the money-changers. Our Lord drove them from the place, a...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 21:14"....
Dialogue of Justin For He appeared distasteful to you when He cried among you, `It is written, My house is the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves!'[42] Irenaeus Against Heresies B...
Matthew 21:13 And G2532 said G3004 (G5719) them G846 written G1125 (G5769) My G3450 house G3624 called...
THE RIDE INTO JERUSALEM (21:8-17). Passover time was always a time of high excitement and fervour. At that time pilgrims would be flooding into Jerusalem from Galilee and Peraea, as well as from Judae...
‘And he says to them, “It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers.” In defence of His actions, and in order to explain their significance, Jesus then c...
Matthew 21:13. IT IS WRITTEN. The first clause is from Isaiah 56:7; the second from Jeremiah 7:7. YE MAKE IT A DEN OF ROBBERS. What they did here was a sign of the general venality and corruption, a...
The cleansing of the temple and the cursing of the barren fig tree were closely connected. According to the fuller account of Mark, on the day of His triumphal entry our Lord looked round about the te...
CONTENTS: The triumphant entry. Jesus' second purification of the temple. Barren fig tree cursed. Jesus' authority questioned. Parable of the two sons in the vineyard. Parable of the house-holder dema...
Matthew 21:1. _When they were come to Bethphage._ The rabbins dispute about the etymon of this village, whether it mean the “house of the fountain,” as is the literal import; or the “house of grossiti...
IT IS WRITTEN. Isaiah 56:7. A HOUSE OF PRAYER. A holy place for worship. A HIDEOUT FOR THIEVES. It is a sin to use religion as a money making scheme (1 Timothy 6:5)....
_And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold._ THE PURIFICATION OF THE TEMPLE I. This act shows the mind of Jesus concerning the reverence which is due to the house of God....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:12 John’s Gospel records a similar cleansing of the temple at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry (John 2:13). Interpreters have proposed two explanations: (1) there was only o...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 21:1 The Messiah Asserts His Authority over Jerusalem. Jesus’ authority over Jerusalem is revealed in his triumphal entry (Matthew 21:1), action
JESUS CLEARS THE TEMPLE MATTHEW 21:10-19; MARK 11:11-19; LUKE 19:45-48; MATTHEW 21:10 And when he was come into Jerusalem,
1-46 CHAPTER 21 _And when they were come nigh_, &c. Mark has (Mark 11:1), "And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, He sendeth forth two of His discip...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 21:12. CAST OUT.—Apparently a second cleansing of the temple. See John 2:15. THEM THAT SOLD AND BOUGHT IN THE TEMPLE.—The first person to introduce this sacrilegious custom wa...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 21:1 _Triumphal entry into Jerusalem_. (Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29; John 12:12.)...
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, they were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, and then Jesus sent two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately...
Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 7:11; John 15:25; Luke 19:46; Mark 11:17;...
Thieves [λ η σ τ ω ν]. Rev., correctly, robbers. See on Matthew 26:55; Luke 10:30....
A den of thieves — A proverbial expression, for a harbour of wicked men. Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 7:11....
(CF. MARK 11:12-14; MARK 11:20)— When was the fig tree cursed by Jesus, before or after the temple was cleansed? PROBLEM: Matthew places the cursing of the fig tree after the cleansing of the temple....