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  • Mark 11:17
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 17 He was teaching and saying to them: “Is it not written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’?+ But you have made it a cave of robbers.”+

  • Mark 11:17
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 17 καὶ and ἐδίδασκεν he was teaching καὶ and ἔλεγεν he was saying Οὐ Not γέγραπται has it been written ὅτι that Ὁ The οἶκός house μου of me οἶκος house προσευχῆς of prayer κληθήσεται will be called πᾶσιν to all τοῖς the ἔθνεσιν; nations? ὑμεῖς YOU δὲ but πεποιήκατε YOU have made αὐτὸν it σπήλαιον cave λῃστῶν. of robbers.

  • Mark 11:17
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 17 but he kept teaching and saying: “Is it not written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer+ for all the nations’?+ But YOU have made it a cave of robbers.”+

  • Mark 11:17
    The Bible in Living English
    • 17 and he taught and said to them “Is it not written ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? but you have made it a robbers’ cave”;

  • Mark 11:17
    American Standard Version
    • 17 And he taught, and said unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but ye have made it a den of robbers.

  • Mark 11:17
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 17 and was teaching and saying—Is it not written, My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations? but ye have made it A den of robbers.

  • Mark 11:17
    King James Version
    • 17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

  • Mark
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026
    • 11:17 it-1 112-113; it-2 428; jy 240; w00 9/15 17; gt chapter 103; si 124; w89 11/15 8

  • Mark
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 11:17 ad 1175; w64 552; ns 256; sr55 94; w45 376; w36 253

  • Mark
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 11:17

      Insight, Volume 1, pp. 112-113

      Insight, Volume 2, p. 428

      Jesus—The Way, p. 240

      The Watchtower,

      9/15/2000, p. 17

      11/15/1989, p. 8

      “All Scripture,” p. 124

  • Mark Study Notes—Chapter 11
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 11:17

      a house of prayer for all the nations: Of the three Gospel writers who quote Isa 56:7, only Mark includes the phrase “for all the nations [peoples].” (Mt 21:13; Lu 19:46) The temple in Jerusalem was meant to be a place where both Israelites and God-fearing foreigners could worship and pray to Jehovah. (1Ki 8:41-43) Jesus rightly condemned the Jews who used the temple for commerce, making it a cave of robbers. Their actions discouraged people of all nations from approaching Jehovah in his house of prayer, depriving them of the opportunity to come to know him.

      cave of robbers: See study note on Mt 21:13.

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