John 2:17

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

18But the Jews replied, and said to him: What sign showest thou to us, since thou doest 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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