John 2:14

And He found in the Temple the dealers in cattle and sheep and in pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

In Context

13But the Jewish Passover was approaching, and for this Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

15So He plaited a whip of rushes, and drove all--both sheep and bullocks--out of the Temple. The small coin of the brokers He upset on the ground and overturned their tables.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:12Entering the Temple, Jesus drove out all who were buying and selling there, and overturned the money-changers' tables and the seats of the pigeon-dealers.

Mark 11:17And He remonstrated with them. "Is it not written," He said, "`My House shall be called The House of Prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it what it now is-- a robbers' cave."

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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