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Isaiah 56
Blessed is the one who keeps justice and the Sabbath. Foreigners and eunuchs who hold fast to the covenant will have a place and a name within God's walls: 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.' Israel's watchmen, though, are blind.
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- The Temple MountThe Court of the Gentiles · The Temple MountOpen
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How sure can we be?
- Textually stated
Mark alone keeps the words "of all nations" from Isaiah 56:7. The outer court was the one part of the temple Gentiles could enter.
Josephus and two surviving Greek inscriptions warn foreigners not to pass the barrier into the inner courts.