45 ^yAnd he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ^z‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ^aden of robbers.”

47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking ^bto destroy him, 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were ^changing on his words.