John 2:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, with the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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 changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And having made a lash (a whip) of cords, He drove them all out of the temple [enclosure]–both the sheep and the oxen–spilling and scattering the brokers' money and upsetting and tossing around their trays (their stands).

American Standard Version (1901)

and he made a scourge of cords, and cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew their tables;

Common English Bible

He made a whip from ropes and chased them all out of the temple, including the cattle and the sheep. He scattered the coins and overturned the tables of those who exchanged currency.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And when he had made something like a whip out of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, including the sheep and the oxen. And he poured out the brass coins of the moneychangers, and he overturned their tables.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.

John 2:15 Cross References

Zechariah 4:6

He said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 21:12

Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

John 18:6

When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they stepped back and fell to the ground.

John 2:14

In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves and the money changers seated at their tables.

John 2:16

He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!”

Acts 27:32

Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and set it adrift.

2 Corinthians 10:4

for the weapons of our warfare are not merely human, but they have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments