Mark 11:17 · WEB
“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!"”
— Mark 11:17
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Life of Jesus (~30 AD)
Emotion
angry
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narrative
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