John 2:16

And to those who sold doves he said, Take these hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

15And he made him a scourge of cord, and drove them all from the temple, and the sheep and the oxen and the money-changers; and he shed their money, and their tables he overturned.

17And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thy house hath devoured me.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:13and said to them, It is written, that my house shall the house of prayer be called, but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Luke 2:49He saith to them, Why have you sought me (elsewhere)? Knew you not that (in) the house of my Father it behoveth me to be?

John 8:49Jeshu said to them, I have no devil; but my Father I honour, and you debase me.

John 20:17Jeshu saith to her, Touch me not; for not yet have I ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father, and to your Father, to my God, and to your God.

1 Timothy 6:5and conflicts of men whose minds are corrupt and deprived of the truth, and who consider that gain is the fear of Aloha.

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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