John 2:16
To the pigeon sellers he said, “Take these things away from here. Stop making the house of my Father a marketplace.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
17His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:11Is this house, which carries my name, a den of bandits in your eyes? But behold, I have seen it—this is Yahweh's declaration.'
Matthew 21:13He said to them, “It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you make it a den of robbers.”
Luke 2:49He said to them, “Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I had to be about my Father's business? + 2:49 Some scholars translate “about my Father's business” as 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 touch me, for I have not yet gone up to the Father, but go to my brothers and say to them that I will go up to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.”
1 Timothy 6:5and constant conflict between people with depraved minds. They have lost the truth and they think that godliness is a way to get more money. + 6:5 Some old copies add, Withdraw from such things, but the best ancient copies do not.
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 →