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John 2:16
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14 aAnd He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers1 doing business.  
15 When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.
16 And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make aMy Father’s house a house of merchandise!”  
17 Then His disciples remembered that it was written, a“Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.”  
18 So the Jews answered and said to Him, a“What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?”  
19 Jesus answered and said to them, a“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”  
20 Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
21 But He was speaking aof the temple of His body.  
22 Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, aHis disciples remembered that He had said this1 to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.  

The Discerner of Hearts

23 Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the asigns which He did.  
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John 2:16

Take these things hence (Arate tauta enteuqen). First aorist active imperative of airw. Probably the doves were in baskets or cages and so had to be taken out by the traders.

Make not my Father's house a house of merchandise (mh poieite ton oikon tou patrov mou oikon emporiou). "Stop making," it means, mh and the present active imperative. They had made it a market-house (emporiou, here only in N.T., old word from emporov, merchant, one who goes on a journey for traffic, a drummer). Note the clear-cut Messianic claim here (My Father as in Luke 2:49). Jerome says: "A certain fiery and starry light shone from his eyes and the majesty of Godhead gleamed in His face."




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 2:16:

Luke 19:45
John 8:49
John 10:36
2 Peter 2:3
1 John 3:5
Revelation 18:3

 

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