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LUKE 19:47 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 19:46Luke 19:48
“And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,”
Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him — every day he was teaching at the temple: the daily presence in the temple for the final week's teaching. The chief priests, teachers of the law, and the leaders were trying to kill him: the conspiracy of the Sanhedrin elements.

Church Fathers on Luke 19:47

When He had related the evils that were to come upon the city, He straightway entered the temple, that He might cast out them that bought and sold in it. Showing that the destruction of the people arose chiefly from the guilt of the priests.

Gregory the Great · 6th century

For God wishes not His temple to be a house of traffic, but the dwelling-place of holiness, nor does He fix the priestly service in a salable performance of religion, but in a free and willing obedience

Ambrose · 4th century

Now there were in the temple a number of sellers who sold animals, by the custom of the law, for the sacrificial victims, but the time was now come for the shadows to pass away, and the truth of Christ to shine forth. Therefore Christ, who together with the Father was worshipped in the temple, commanded the customs of the law to be reformed, but the temple to become a house of prayer; as it is added, My house, &c.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century
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