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.’”
Here is, I. Christ's cursing the fruitless fig-tree. He had a convenient resting-place at Bethany, and therefore thither he went at resting-time; but his work lay at Jerusalem, and thither therefore he returned in the morning, at working-time; and so intent was he upon his work, that he went out from Bethany without breakfast, which, before he was gone far, he found the want of...
Commenting on Mark 11:12-26
And he taught, saying unto them, is it not written,.... In Isa 56:7. My house shall be called of all nations, the house of prayer? For not only the Jews went up to the temple to pray, see Luk 18:10, but the Gentiles also, who became of the Jewish religion, and had a court built for that purpose; and so the whole temple, from hence...
Verse 17. (a) "Is it not written" (1) "called" or, "an house of prayer for all nations" (b) "den of thieves"