John 2:16
and He said to those selling the doves, “Take these things from here; do not make the house of My Father a house of merchandise.”
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
17And His disciples remembered that it is written: “The zeal of Your house ate Me up”;
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:11Has this house, || On which My Name is called, || Been a den of burglars in your eyes? Even I, behold, have seen,” || A declaration of YHWH.
Matthew 21:13and He says to them, “It has been written: My house will be called a house of prayer; but you made it a den of robbers.”
Luke 2:49And He said to them, “Why [is it] that you were seeking Me? Did you not know that it is necessary for Me to be in the things of My Father?”
John 8:49Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me;
John 20:17Jesus says to her, “Do not be touching Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; and be going on to My brothers, and say to them, I ascend to My Father and your Father, and [to] My God and your God.”
1 Timothy 6:5wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;
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 →