John 2:16 - English Majority Text Version 2009

¹⁶ And He said to those selling the doves, "Take these things [away] from here! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!"

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ and said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Then to those who sold the doves He said, Take these things away (out of here)! Make not My Father's house a house of merchandise (a marketplace, a sales shop)! [Ps. 93:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ He said to the dove sellers, “Get these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a place of business.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And to those who were selling doves, he said: "Take these things out of here, and do not make my Father's house into a house of commerce."

John 2:16 Cross References

Matthew 21:12

Then Jesus went into the temple of God and He cast out all those buying and selling in the temple, and He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

Matthew 21:13

And He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of thieves.'"

Matthew 22:5

"But not caring, they went away, one to his own field, another to his business.

Mark 11:17

And He was teaching, saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a 'den of thieves!' "

Luke 2:49

And He said to them, "Why [is it] that you were seeking Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?"

John 10:29

My Father, who has given [them] to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch [them] out of My Father's hand.

John 2:15

And having made a scourge out of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and He poured out the coins of the moneychangers, and He overturned the tables.

John 20:17

Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.' "

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I am working."

John 8:49

Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.

1 Timothy 6:5

constant wranglings of men of corrupt minds and having been deprived of the truth, supposing that godliness is a means of profit. Withdraw from such [people].

2 Peter 2:3

And by covetousness they will exploit you with fabricated words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction will not sleep.