John 2:17

And His disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thy house doth eat me up.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And He said to those selling doves; Take these things hence, make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.

18Then the Jews responded and said to Him, What sign do you show us, because you do these things?

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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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