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John 2:16

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

And said to the pigeon-dealers: "Take these things away. Do not turn my Father's House into a market-house."

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Jesus went into the Temple Courts, and drove out all those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of the pigeon-dealers,

And said to them: "Scripture says—'My House shall be called a house of prayer'; but you are making it 'a den of robbers.'"

They, however, took no notice, but went off, one to his farm, another to his business;

Then he began to teach. "Does not Scripture say," he asked, "'My House shall be called a House of Prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers.'"

"What made you search for me?" he answered. "Did not you know that I must be in my Father's House?"

What my Father has entrusted to me is more than all else; and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hands.

So he made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the Temple Courts, and the sheep and bullocks as well; he scattered the money of the money-changers, and overturned their tables,

"Do not hold me," Jesus said; "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my Brothers, and tell them that I am ascending to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God."

But Jesus replied: "My Father works to this very hour, and I work also."

"I am not possessed by a demon," Jesus answered, "but I am showing reverence for my Father; and yet you have no reverence for me.

and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the Truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain.

In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.




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