Has this house, which bears my name, become a den of robbers in your view? Yes, I too have seen it. This is the Lord’s declaration.
John 2:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised He told those who were selling doves, ‘Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace! ’ , Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic. |
Has this house, which bears my name, become a den of robbers in your view? Yes, I too have seen it. This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jesus went into the temple , and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the chairs of those selling doves.
He said to them, ‘It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves! ’ ,
‘But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own farm, another to his business,
He was teaching them: ‘Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves! ’ ,
‘Why were you searching for me? ’ he asked them. ‘Didn’t you know that it was necessary for me to be in my Father’s house? ’
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
After making a whip out of cords, he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money-changers’ coins and overturned the tables.
‘Don’t cling to me,’ Jesus told her, ‘since I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’
Jesus responded to them, ‘My Father is still working, and I am working also.’
‘I do not have a demon,’ Jesus answered. ‘On the contrary, I honour my Father and you dishonour me.
and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain. ,
They will exploit you in their greed with made-up stories. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.