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The Pulpit Commentary - John 2:14-17

The vindication of a desecrated temple. High purposes were subserved by the exercise of the Saviour's authority both at the beginning and at the close of his ministry. If there was in this conduct an evidential meaning for the Jews, there was also a symbolical meaning for all time. I. IN WHAT THE HOLINESS OF THE TEMPLE CONSISTED . 1 . The true answer to this inquiry is to be found in the language of the Lord himself. The temple was his Father ' s house. It was... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 2:16

And he said to those that sold the doves. The vendors of tethered or caged birds were as guilty of profanation as the rest. Some sentimental comments have gathered round this verse, as though the Lord were more tender in his treatment of the turtle doves than in that of the oxen or sheep. But there would be no meaning in such a distinction. No other way of scattering the doves was so simple as to command their removal. At "the Ammergan Passion play," the doves are let loose, fly away over... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 2:15-17

John 2:15-17. And when he had made a scourge of small cords Εκσχοινιων , of rushes, rather, which he found strewed on the ground. This circumstance, seemingly slight, was inserted to show that the instrument could not be the cause of so wonderful an effect as is here mentioned. He drove them all out Namely, out of the court of the temple; both the sheep and the oxen Though it does not appear that he struck even them, much less any of the men. But a terror from God, it is evident, fell... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - John 2:13-25

EARLY WORK IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA20. Cleansing the temple (John 2:13-25)From Capernaum Jesus went to Jerusalem for the Passover (John 2:13). When he visited the temple he found that its outer court (the Court of the Gentiles) was crowded with Jewish merchants and money changers. The merchants were selling animals for sacrifice, and the money changers were exchanging foreign money for money acceptable to the temple authorities. The place looked more like a market than a place of prayer. Jesus was... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - John 2:16

not . Greek. me. App-105 . Not the same word as in verses: John 2:2 , John 2:9 , John 2:12 , John 2:24 , John 2:25 . My Father's house . This was at the beginning of His ministry. At the end He called it "your house" (Matthew 23:38 ). My Father's. A characteristic expression in this gospel. Occurs thirty-five times. See p. 1511. merchandise. Greek. emporion = market-place (not emporia, which = the traffic itself). On the later occasion the words naturally differ. Compare Matthew 22:5 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - John 2:16

And to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.The doves, in cages, could not be driven out, hence the Lord's command that they be carried out.House of merchandise ... Among the differences in this cleansing and the second is this order of the Lord for them to cease and desist from such practices. At the second cleansing, it was too late to command them to cease, and they were at that time denounced as "thieves and robbers."... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - John 2:16

John 2:16. Make not my Father's house, &c.— It is remarkable, that at this ejection of those who profaned the temple, our Saviour says, Make not my Father's house, &c. but when he repeated this miracle towards the close of his life, when he had proved his divinity by a variety of miracles, he says My house, (Matthew 21:13.) and rises in his expression there, respecting the abuse of this house; in which the Jews were the more inexcusable, and therefore deserved severer rebuke the second... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - John 2:16

16. my Father's house—How close the resemblance of these remarkable words to :-; 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" ( :-), the proper Representative, and in flesh "the Heir," of his Father's rights. house of merchandise—There... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - John 2:13-22

1. The first cleansing of the temple 2:13-22The Synoptics record Jesus’ cleansing of the temple after His triumphal entry (Matthew 21:12-13; Mark 11:15-16; Luke 19:45-46). Only John noted this cleansing of the temple at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. The differences between the two cleansing incidents and their placement in the chronology of Jesus’ ministry argue for two cleansings rather than one. [Note: See W. Hendriksen, Exposition of the Gospel According to John , 1:120; and Morris, pp.... read more