John 2:16

and he said to them that sold doves, Take away these things; and make not my Father's house a house of traffic.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 himself a whip from a cord, and turned them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the beeves and the money-changers; and he poured out their money, and overset their tables:

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

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Cross References

Matthew 21:13And he said to them: It is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of robbers.

Luke 2:49He said to them: Why did ye seek me? Do ye not know, that it behooveth me to be in my Father's house?

John 8:49Jesus said to them: I have no demon: but I honor God; and ye contemn me.

John 20:17Jesus said 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 your Father, and to my God and your God.

1 Timothy 6:5and the disputation of men, whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth, and who suppose that gain is godliness. But from these stand thou aloof.

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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