Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says Yahweh.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 7 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 brands the temple traffickers as making it 'a den of robbers,' quoting Jeremiah's temple sermon that asks whether the Lord's house has become a den of robbers in the people's eyes. The citation imports Jeremiah's threat of the temple's destruction for covenant infidelity. High volume; explicit quotation fused with Isaiah 56:7.
High confidenceThe charge 'you have made it a den of robbers' formally quotes Jeremiah's temple sermon, where the people treat the LORD's house as a robbers' hideout while presuming on its protection. The citation imports Jeremiah's threat of the temple's destruction (Jer 7:14), giving the act prophetic-judgment force; high volume and tight coherence.
High confidence'But you have made it a den of robbers' (21:13) quotes Jeremiah 7:11 from the Temple Sermon, where cultic activity masks injustice and invites judgment; the borrowed indictment imports Jeremiah's threat of the temple's destruction.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Jeremiah's temple sermon denounces those who make the LORD's house 'a den of robbers'; Jesus' 'do not make my Father's house a marketplace' belongs to the same prophetic critique of commercializing/profaning the temple. The synoptics quote Jer 7:11 directly; John's wording diverges ('marketplace' vs. 'den of robbers') but the underlying allusion is strong.
Medium confidence