“Now from what Christ had said and done it was meet that men should worship Him as God, but far from doing this, they sought to slay Him; as it follows, But the chief priests and scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him.”
Cyril of Alexandria, 5th c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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47And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
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45And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;
46Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
— Luke 19:47 —
48And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.