Later text
And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Intertextuality Pair
Matthew 21:13 → Isaiah 56:7
Quotation
Earlier text
Isaiah 56:7BSB
I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations."
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Earlier text
Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
Significance
Jesus combines Isaiah's eschatological vision of the temple as prayer house for all nations with Jeremiah's condemnation of false security in the temple ("den of robbers"). The temple leadership has corrupted worship through commercialization and excluded Gentiles by filling their court with merchants. Isaiah foresaw universal worship; current reality is exploitation. Jeremiah's oracle preceded temple destruction in 586 BC; Jesus' use foreshadows AD 70 destruction. The temple system will be replaced by Jesus himself and the church as the new locus of God's presence.
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- Reference Type
- Direct Quotation
- Connection Method(s)
- Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme (the temple / nations-inclusion trajectory) — the positive half of the temple-cleansing composite; NOT typology-primary. The ideal-vs-verdict Contrast is the composite's rhetorical structure, carried by the Jeremiah 7:11 half (the full composite method-analysis is carried at the Jer 7:11 ATN, and this pair is read as its positive half, consistent with the Isaiah 56:7 ATN).
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Hermeneutical Notes
NT Use Pattern: Assimilated — Composite: Isaiah 56:7 ("house of prayer for all nations") + Jeremiah 7:11 ("den of robbers"). Jesus's temple-cleansing rebuke fuses two prophetic temple-critique texts.
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