John 2:16
And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
17And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:11Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the Lord.
Matthew 21:13And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.
Luke 2:49And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? did you not know, that I must be about my father's business?
John 8:49Jesus answered: I have not a devil: but I honour my Father, and you have dishonoured me.
John 20:17Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me, for I am not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren, and say to them: I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and your God.
1 Timothy 6:5Conflicts of men corrupted in mind, and who are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness.
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 →