John 2:16

and said to those who sold doves: Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.

In Context

15And when he had made a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also, and the oxen, and he poured out the money of the money-changers, and overthrew their tables;

17And his disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for thy house has eaten me up.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:13and said to them: It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.

Luke 2:49And he said to them: Why did you seek for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?

John 8:49Jesus answered: I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

John 20:17Jesus said to her: Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.

1 Timothy 6:5and wranglings, on the part of men who are corrupt in mind, and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a source of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

Matthew Henry on John 2:13-23

Temple-Merchandise Punished; Christ's Death and Resurrection Foretold. 12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. 13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the… Read the whole commentary →

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