Later text
Mark 11:17BSB
Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Intertextuality Pair
Mark 11:17 → 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 56:7 with Jeremiah 7:11 to indict the temple establishment. Isaiah promised God would include foreigners in restored Israel, making them joyful in his house of prayer "for all nations"—Mark alone includes this phrase, emphasizing Gentile mission. Jeremiah's "den of robbers" condemned trusting temple presence while practicing injustice. Jesus charges that corrupt leaders perverted God's house from universal worship purpose, as the Gentile court had become a marketplace (11:15-16). This implicitly claims authority to reform temple practice, pointing toward a new temple "not made with hands" (14:58) where all nations worship.
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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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