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Selected Verse: John 2:16 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joh 2:16 |
King James |
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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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
my Father's house--How close the resemblance of these remarkable words to Luk 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" (Heb 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. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
My Father's house
See on Father's business, Luk 2:49, and compare Mat 23:38, where Jesus speaks of the temple as your house. The people had made God's house their own.
Merchandise (ἐμπορίου)
Only here in the New Testament. The Synoptists say a den of robbers. |
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?