Mark 11:18 meaning and explanation
When the chief priests and scribes heard this, they looked for a way to kill Him. For they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.
Mark 11:18, Berean Standard Bible
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Jesus has just cleared the temple courts and quoted Isaiah and Jeremiah, calling the temple a house of prayer for all nations that had become a den of robbers. The chief priests and scribes, the leaders responsible for the temple's worship and teaching, hear this as an attack on their authority and their arrangement with the merchants.
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