◄ John 2:16 ►
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Good News Translation
and he ordered those who sold the pigeons, "Take them out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"

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!”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus said to the people who had been selling doves, "Get those doves out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace."

New American Bible
and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.

make.

Isaiah 56:5-11 I will give to them in my house, and within my walls, a place, and a name better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name which shall never perish. . . .

Jeremiah 7:11 Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the Lord.

Hosea 12:7,8 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression. . . .

Matthew 21:13 And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.

Mark 11:17 And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves.

Acts 19:24-27 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver temples for Diana, brought no small gain to the craftsmen. . . .

1 Timothy 6:5 Conflicts of men corrupted in mind and who are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness.

2 Peter 2:3,14,15 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not. . . .

my.

John 5:17 But Jesus answered them: My Father worketh until now; and I work.

John 8:49 Jesus answered: I have not a devil: but I honour my Father. And you have dishonoured me.

John 10:29 That which my Father hath given me is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.

John 20:17 Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me: for I am not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren and say to them: I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God.

Luke 2:49 And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be about my father's business?

Context
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
…15And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen: and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew. 16And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic. 17And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.…
Cross References
Matthew 21:12
And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money changers and the chairs of them that sold doves.

Matthew 22:5
But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and another to his merchandise.

Luke 2:49
And he said to them: How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be about my father's business?

John 2:15
And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen: and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.

John 2:15
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