John 2:16 To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a market!"

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a market!"

English Standard Version
And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”

New American Standard Bible
and to those who were selling the doves He said, "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a place of business."

King James Bible
And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He told those who were selling doves, "Get these things out of here! Stop turning My Father's house into a marketplace!"

International Standard Version
Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

American Standard Version
and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.

Darby Bible Translation
and said to the sellers of doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.

Young's Literal Translation
and to those selling the doves he said, 'Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.'

Cross References

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,

Matthew 22:5
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

Luke 2:49
And he said to them, How is it that you sought me? knew you not that I must be about my Father's business?

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

16. my Father's house—How close the resemblance of these remarkable words to Lu 2:49; the same consciousness of intrinsic relation to the temple—as the seat of His Father's most august worship, and so the symbol of all that is due to Him on earth—dictating both speeches. Only, when but a youth, with no authority, He was simply "a Son in His own house"; now He was "a Son over His own house" (Heb 3:6), the proper Representative, and in flesh "the Heir," of his Father's rights.

house of merchandise—There was nothing wrong in the merchandise; but to bring it, for their own and others' convenience, into that most sacred place, was a high-handed profanation which the eye of Jesus could not endure.