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Matthew 21:16

Matt.21.16

and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”

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Matthew 21:16 quotes Psalms 8:2
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When the chief priests object to children praising Him in the temple, Jesus answers with Psalm 8.
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- Matthew 21:15-16
- Psalms 8:2
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