John 2:16
And to those who were selling doves, he said: “Take these things out of here, and do not make my Father’s house into a house of commerce.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17And truly, his disciples were reminded that it is written: “Zeal for your house consumes me.”
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:11So then, has this house, where my name has been invoked, become a den of robbers in your eyes? It is I, I am, I have seen, says the Lord.
Matthew 21:13And he said to them: “It is written: ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer. But you have made it into a den of robbers.’”
Luke 2:49And he said to them: “How is it that you were seeking me? For did you not know that it is necessary for me to be in these things which are of my Father?”
John 8:49Jesus responded: “I do not have a demon. But I honor my Father, and you have dishonored me.
John 20:17Jesus said to her: “Do not touch me. For I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brothers and tell them: ‘I am ascending to my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God.’”
1 Timothy 6:5the conflicts of men who have been corrupted in mind and deprived of truth, who consider profit to be piety.
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 →