John 2:14

And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers sitting there.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

In Context

13Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

15And having made a scourge out of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and He poured out the coins of the moneychangers, and He overturned the tables.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:12Then Jesus went into the temple of God and He cast out all those buying and selling in the temple, and He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those selling doves.

Mark 11:17And He was teaching, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘ My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a ‘ den of thieves!’ ”

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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