Mark 11:16 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And He would not [even] allow anyone to carry a container [of goods] through the Temple [area].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And He would not permit anyone to carry any household equipment through the temple enclosure [thus making the temple area a short-cut traffic lane].

American Standard Version (1901)

and he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple.

Common English Bible

He didn’t allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he suffered not that any man should carry a vessel through the temple;

Mark 11:16 Cross References

Mark 11:15

Then they entered Jerusalem and Jesus went into the Temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold [animals for sacrifice]. He upset the tables of the cashiers [i.e., those who exchanged foreign coins] and the benches of those who sold pigeons [for sacrifices].

Mark 11:17

Then He taught them, saying, “Is it not written [Isa. 56:7], ‘My house [i.e., the Temple] will be called a house of prayer for people of all nations’? But [Jer. 7:11 says], ‘You have made it a hideout for thieves.’”