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John 2:16

Weymouth NT

And to the pigeon-dealers He said, »Take these things away. Do not turn my Father's house into a market.«

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Entering the Temple, Jesus drove out all who were buying and selling there, and overturned the money-changers' tables and the seats of the pigeon-dealers.

»It is written,« He said, »`My House shall be called the House of Prayer', but you are making it a robbers' cave.«

»They however gave no heed, but went, one to his home in the country, another to his business;«

And He remonstrated with them. »Is it not written,« He said, »`My House shall be called The House of Prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it what it now is–a robbers' cave.«

When they saw Him, they were smitten with amazement, and His mother said to Him, »My child, why have you behaved thus to us? Your father and I have been searching for you in anguish.«

What my Father has given me is more precious than all besides; and no one is able to wrest anything from my Father's hand.

So He plaited a whip of rushes, and drove all –both sheep and bullocks– out of the Temple. The small coin of the brokers He upset on the ground and overturned their tables.

»Do not cling to me,« said Jesus, »for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But take this message to my brethren: `I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'«

His reply to their accusation was, »My Father works unceasingly, and so do I.«

»I am not possessed by a demon,« replied Jesus. »On the contrary I honour my Father, and you dishonour me.

and persistent wranglings on the part of people whose intellects are disordered and they themselves blinded to all knowledge of the truth; who imagine that godliness means gain.

Thirsting for riches, they will trade on you with their canting talk. From of old their judgement has been working itself out, and their destruction has not been slumbering.




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