John 2:16
He ordered the dove-sellers, “Take these things out of here! Don't turn my Father's house into a market!”
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Jeremiah 7:11Do you see this house, my own Temple, as a den of thieves? Well, that's what it looks like to me too, declares the Lord.
Matthew 21:13He told them, “Scripture says, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you've turned it into a den of thieves.”
Luke 2:49“Why is it that you were looking for me?” Jesus replied. “Didn't you know I should be here in my Father's house?”
John 8:49“No, I don't have a demon,” Jesus replied. “I honor my Father, but you dishonor me.
John 20:17“Don't hold onto me,” Jesus said to her, “for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them I am ascending to my Father and your Father, my God and your God.”
1 Timothy 6:5the constant arguing of people whose minds are totally corrupt and who have lost the truth, thinking that they can profit financially from religion…
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 →