even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
⛓ Read Isaiah 56 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation3
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Jesus quotes 'My house shall be a house of prayer' from Isaiah's oracle promising that foreigners' offerings will be accepted in a house of prayer for all peoples. The citation grounds the temple's intended purpose against its corruption. High volume; an explicit, marked quotation introduced by 'it is written.'
High confidenceJesus' teaching 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations' is a verbatim citation of Isaiah's oracle gathering foreigners and outcasts to worship at the temple. Mark uniquely preserves 'for all the nations,' heightening the inclusion theme; the formal quotation has maximal volume and frames the cleansing as eschatological restoration.
High confidenceJesus' citation 'My house shall be called a house of prayer' (21:13) quotes Isaiah 56:7 verbatim, an oracle of the temple as a house of prayer for all peoples; the act of cleansing enacts the eschatological temple ideal.
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