John 2:16
And said vnto them that solde doues, Take these things hence: make not my fathers house, an house of marchandise.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
17And his disciples remembred, that it was written, The zeale of thine house hath eaten me vp.
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:11Is this House become a denne of theeues, whereupon my Name is called before your eyes? Beholde, euen I see it, sayeth the Lord.
Matthew 21:13And said to them, it is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer: but ye haue made it a denne of theeues.
Luke 2:49Then said he vnto them, Howe is it that ye sought me? knewe ye not that I must goe about my Fathers busines?
John 8:49Iesus answered, I haue not a deuil, but I honour my Father, and ye haue dishonoured me.
John 20:17Iesus saith vnto her, Touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but goe to my brethren, and say vnto them, I ascend vnto my Father, and to your Father, and to my God, and your God.
1 Timothy 6:5Frowarde disputations of men of corrupt mindes and destitute of ye trueth, which thinke that gaine is godlines: from such separate thy selfe.
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 →