A moment in scripture
John 2:16
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And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.
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The surrounding passage
- John 2:14
And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
- John 2:15
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
- John 2:17
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
- John 2:18
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.