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

¹⁶ And He would not [even] allow anyone to carry a container [of goods] through the Temple [area].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ and would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ and he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ He didn’t allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And he would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ 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.’”