John 2:16
And to the dove-sellers He said: “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father's House into a marketplace!”
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
17Then His disciples remembered that it stands written, “Zeal for Your House consumes me.”
Cross References
Matthew 21:13And He says to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it ‘a cave of bandits’.”
Luke 2:49So He said to them: “Why were you seeking me? Didn't you know that I must be about my Father's concerns?”
John 8:49Jesus answered: “ I do not have a demon; rather, I honor my Father, while you dishonor me.
John 20:17Jesus says to her: “Stop clinging to me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father—my God and your God.’”
1 Timothy 6:5constant wranglings of men with corrupted minds and destitute of the Truth, who suppose that godliness is a means to financial gain. Keep away from such people.
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 →