John 2:16

New International Version

To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!”

Cross References

Jeremiah 7:11

Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.

Matthew 21:12

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.

Matthew 21:13

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

Matthew 22:5

“But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business.

Mark 11:17

And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

Luke 2:49

“Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”

John 10:29

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

John 2:15

So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

John 20:17

Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

John 5:17

In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”

John 8:49

“I am not possessed by a demon,” said Jesus, “but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.