John 2:14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.

English Standard Version
In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

New American Standard Bible
And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the temple complex He found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and He also found the money changers sitting there.

International Standard Version
In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

Darby Bible Translation
And he found in the temple the sellers of oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting;

Young's Literal Translation
and he found in the temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting,

Cross References

Ezekiel 36:38
As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Malachi 3:1
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, said the LORD of hosts.

Matthew 21:12
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

Mark 11:15
And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;

Mark 11:17
And he taught, saying to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but you have made it a den of thieves.

Luke 19:45
And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;

John 2:15
And when he had made a whip of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

2:12-22 The first public work in which we find Christ engaged, was driving from the temple the traders whom the covetous priests and rulers encouraged to make a market-place of its courts. Those now make God's house a house of merchandise, whose minds are filled with cares about worldly business when attending religious exercises, or who perform Divine offices for love of gain. Christ, having thus cleansed the temple, gave a sign to those who demanded it, to prove his authority for so doing. He foretells his death by the Jews' malice, Destroy ye this temple; I will permit you to destroy it. He foretells his resurrection by his own power; In three days I will raise it up. Christ took again his own life. Men mistake by understanding that according to the letter, which the Scripture speaks by way of figure. When Jesus was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered he has said this. It helps much in understanding the Divine word, to observe the fulfilling of the Scriptures.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14-17. in the temple—not the temple itself, as Joh 2:19-21, but the temple-court.

sold oxen, &c.—for the convenience of those who had to offer them in sacrifice.

changers of money—of Roman into Jewish money, in which the temple dues (see on [1771]Mt 17:24) had to be paid.