Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
my Father's house—How close the resemblance of these remarkable words to Luke 2:49; the same consciousness of intrinsic relation to the temple—as the seat of His Father's most august worship, and so the symbol of all that is due to Him on earth—dictating both speeches. Only, when but a youth, with no authority, He was simply "a SON IN His own house"; now He was "a SON OVER His own house" (Hebrews 3:6), the proper Representative, and in flesh "the Heir," of his Father's rights.
house of merchandise—There was nothing wrong in the merchandise; but to bring it, for their own and others' convenience, into that most sacred place, was a high-handed profanation which the eye of Jesus could not endure.
CHRIST'S FIRST PASSOVER—FIRST CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. (John 2:13-25)
in the temple—not the temple itself, as John 2:19-21, but the temple-court.
sold oxen, etc.—for the convenience of those who had to offer them in sacrifice.
changers of money—of Roman into Jewish money, in which the temple dues (see on Matthew 17:24) had to be paid.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 2:16:
Isaiah 59:17
Jeremiah 23:11
Luke 19:45-46
John 2:14-17
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