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Matthew 21:12

Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    And Iesus went in to the temple of God and cast out all them that soulde and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the mony chaugers and the seates of them that solde doves

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    And Iesus went into the Temple of God, and cast out all them that solde and bought in the Temple, and ouerthrew the tables of the money chagers, and the seates of them that sold doues,

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  • John 2:14-17 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables. To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”
  • Luke 19:45-47 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!” He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
  • Mark 11:15-18 They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables, and the seats of those who sold the doves. He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple. He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ But you have made it a den of robbers!” The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
  • Leviticus 1:14 “ ‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons.
  • Leviticus 5:7 “ ‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
  • Luke 2:24 and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”
  • Deuteronomy 14:24-26 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it because the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to set his name there is too far from you, when Yahweh your God blesses you, then you shall turn it into money, bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose. You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
  • Exodus 30:13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
  • Leviticus 12:8 If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’ ”
  • Leviticus 14:22 and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
  • Leviticus 12:6 “ ‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove, for a sin offering.
  • Leviticus 14:30 He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, which ever he is able to afford,
  • Malachi 3:1-2 “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies. “But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;
  • Mark 11:11 Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
  • Leviticus 15:14 “ ‘On the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Yahweh to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.
  • Leviticus 15:29 On the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.
  • Leviticus 5:11 “ ‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 12 And Jesus went into the temple of God,…

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,

Ver. 12. And cast out all them that sold] The zeal of God’s house did ever eat him up. And (as revenge follows zeal, 2Co 7:11) he mars their markets, and drives them out of the temple with Procul o procul este profani. {a} And this deed of our Saviour’s was altogether divine; while as another Samson, he lays "heaps upon heaps" (yet without bloodshed) with the jawbone of an ass. St Jerome extolleth this miracle above the raising of Lazarus, restoring the blind to their sight, the lame to their limbs, &c., and adds this mystical sense of the text, Quotidie Iesus ingreditur templum Patris, et eiecit omnes tam episcopos et presbyteros, quam laicos et universam turbam de ecclesia sua, et unius criminis habet, vendentes pariter et ementes. Christ is every day casting out of his Church all these money merchants, these sacrilegious simonists, both ministers and others, that make sale of holy things, which the very heathens abhorred, and others long since complained that benefices were bestowed non ubi optime, sed ubi quaestuosissime, as if a man should bestow so much bread on his ass because he is to ride on him.

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The tables of the money changers] This he did also at his first entrance into the ministry, Joh 2:14-15. See my notes on that text. The reformation of religion was Christ’s chief care, and so it shall be ours. And although little was done by his first attempt, Joh 2:13-17, yet he tries again: so should we, contributing what we can to the work continually, by our prayers and utmost endeavours; wishing at least, as Ferus did, that we had some Moses to take away the evils in Church and State. Non enim unum tantum vitulum, sed multos habemus, saith he, for we abound with idols and evils, Exo 32:20.

{a} In Graecorum sacris sacerdos exclamabat τις τηδε, quis hic? Respondebant qui aderant, πολλοι τ αγαθοι τε παρεισι. Eras. praefat, in Adag.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This piece of the history is related by two…
William Burkitt 1703 · Public Domain Our blessed Saviour having entered Jerusalem, Observe, his first…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Jesus went into the temple of God,.... At…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain He cast out all that sold and bought -…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 12. Jesus went into the temple of God,…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Mat 21:12-14. And Jesus went into the temple —…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain This paragraph contains the account of the barren fig-tree,…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain And cast out all. Since the Jews came to…
Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures 1864 · Public Domain
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12. Jesus went into the temple of God —…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. cast out all them that sold, &c.] It…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) And Jesus went into the temple.—Here, again, there…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 12-17. The second cleansing of the temple. (Mar_11:15-19…
John A. Broadus 1886 · Public Domain Mat 21:12-17.
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain And Jesus went into the temple of God, and…
B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 12. And Jesus went into the temple. According to…
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain Mat_21:12. Cast out.—Apparently a second cleansing of the temple.…
William B. Godbey 1900 · Public Domain Mat 21:12-13; Luk 19:45-48; Mar 11:15-19. “And they came…
J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain J. W. McGarvey's The Fourfold Gospel [CVI. The Barren…
C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain See, Luk 19:45; Mar 11:15-18. Cf. Joh 2:13-25 which…
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain Christ Visits the Temple.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 21:12-13 The close association of the Temple cleansing (see…

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