John 2:16

Then he said to those who were selling doves, “Take these things away from here; stop making my Father's house a marketplace.”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.

In Context

15So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, along with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

17And his disciples remembered that it is written, “Zeal for yoʋr house will consume me.”

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Cross References

Matthew 21:13And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

Luke 2:49He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?”

John 8:49Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”

1 Timothy 6:5and constant disagreement among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, supposing that godliness is a means of 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 →

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