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Mark 11:15 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. "
Mark 11:15
Verse in Context
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13 Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
14 Jesus told it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” and his disciples heard it.
15 They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.
16 He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.
17 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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Mark 11:1
"When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples"
Mark 11:2
"and said to them, “Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him and bring him."
Mark 11:3
"If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs him;’ and immediately he will send him back here.”"
Mark 11:4
"They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him."
Mark 11:5
"Some of those who stood there asked them, “What are you doing, untying the young donkey?”"
Mark 11:6
"They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go."
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