John 2:17

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

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In The King James Version

And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

In Context

16To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

18The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”

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Cross References

Psalms 119:139My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

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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