Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? You know, I too am watching, says the Lord.
John 2:16 - New Revised Standard Version He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house 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 is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? You know, I too am watching, says the Lord.
Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a den of robbers.”
But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business,
He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
He said to them, “Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?”
What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father's hand.
Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”
But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, and I also am working.”
Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.