John 2:17

And truly, his disciples were reminded that it is written: “Zeal for your house consumes me.”

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In The King James Version

And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

In Context

16And 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.”

18Then the Jews responded and said to him, “What sign can you show to us, that you may do these things?”

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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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