John 2:16

New English Translation

To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

Cross References

Jeremiah 7:11

Do you think this temple I have claimed as my own is to be a hideout for robbers? You had better take note! I have seen for myself what you have done! says the Lord.

Matthew 21:12

Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

Matthew 21:13

And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are turning it into a den of robbers!”

Matthew 22:5

But they were indifferent and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

Mark 11:17

Then he began to teach them and said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”

Luke 2:49

But he replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

John 10:29

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

John 2:15

So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

John 20:17

Jesus replied, “Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

John 5:17

So he told them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

John 8:49

Jesus answered, “I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father – and yet you dishonor me.

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.