John 2:14

In the Temple Courts he found people who were selling bullocks, sheep, and pigeons, and the money changers at their counters.

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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

13Then, as the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

15So he made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the Temple Courts, and the sheep and bullocks as well; he scattered the money of the money changers, and overturned their tables,

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Cross References

Matthew 21:12Jesus went into the Temple Courts, and drove out all those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers, and the seats of the pigeon-dealers,

Mark 11:17Then he began to teach. “Does not scripture say,” he asked, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

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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