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8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, ‘Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.’ ⁹So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll; and he said to me, ‘Take it, and eat; it will be bitter to your stomach, but sweet as honey in your mouth.’ ¹⁰So I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it; it was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

11 Then they said to me, ‘You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.’

¹⁴ I delight in the way of your decrees
   as much as in all riches.
²⁴ Your decrees are my delight,
   they are my counsellors.

⁷² The law of your mouth is better to me
   than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

¹⁰³ How sweet are your words to my taste,
   sweeter than honey to my mouth!
¹¹¹ Your decrees are my heritage for ever;
   they are the joy of my heart.
¹³¹ With open mouth I pant,
   because I long for your commandments.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

45 Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there; ⁴⁶and he said, ‘It is written,
“My house shall be a house of prayer”;
   but you have made it a den of robbers.’

47 Every day he was teaching in the temple. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him; ⁴⁸but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were spellbound by what they heard.