John 2:16
and to those selling the doves he said, 'Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
17And his disciples remembered that it is written, 'The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;'
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:11A den of burglars hath this house, On which My name is called, been in your eyes? Even I, lo, I have seen, an affirmation of Jehovah.
Matthew 21:13and he saith to them, 'It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'
Luke 2:49And he said unto them, 'Why [is it] that ye were seeking me? did ye not know that in the things of my Father it behoveth me to be?'
John 8:49Jesus answered, 'I have not a demon, but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me;
John 20:17Jesus saith to her, 'Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'
1 Timothy 6:5wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;
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 →