John 2:14
In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves; and money-changers sitting at their tables.
Free Bible Version
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
13Since it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went on to Jerusalem.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:23You are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose to live with you, so that you will learn to always respect the Lord your God.
Matthew 21:12Jesus went into the Temple, and threw out all the people buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the chairs of the dove-sellers.
Mark 11:17He explained to them, “Doesn't Scripture say, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into 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 →