Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
small cords—likely some of the rushes spread for bedding, and when twisted used to tie up the cattle there collected. "Not by this slender whip but by divine majesty was the ejection accomplished, the whip being but a sign of the scourge of divine anger" [GROTIUS].
poured out . . . overthrew—thus expressing the mingled indignation and authority of the impulse.
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 2:15:
Isaiah 59:17
Luke 19:45-46
John 2:14-17
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