John 2:14

Green's Literal Translation

And He found those selling oxen and sheep and doves in the temple, and the money changers sitting.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
When he got to the main church, he saw people making a mockery of the sacrificial system by selling cattle, sheep, and doves. There were also people making a fortune off of exchanging money for foreigners.

Legacy Standard Bible
And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.

Bible in Basic English
And there in the Temple he saw men trading in oxen and sheep and doves, and he saw the changers of money in their seats:

Darby Translation
And he found in the temple the sellers of oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting;

New King James Version
And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business.

Christian Standard Bible®
In the temple complex He found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and He also found the money changers sitting there.

World English Bible
He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
and sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

Weymouth's New Testament
And He found in the Temple the dealers in cattle and sheep and in pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

King James Version (1611)
And found in the Temple those that sold oxen, and sheepe, and doues, and the changers of money, sitting.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and founde syttinge in the teple, those that solde oxen, shepe, and doues, and chaungers of money.

Mace New Testament (1729)
where he found in the temple those that sold oxen, sheep, and doves, besides the changers of money, who were sitting there.

Amplified Bible
And in the temple [enclosure] He found the people who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at their tables.

American Standard Version
And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

Revised Standard Version
In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers at their business.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and founde syttynge in the temple those that solde oxen and shepe and doves and chaungers of money.

Update Bible Version
And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

Webster's Bible Translation
And found in the temple those that sold oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the changers of money, sitting:

New Century Version
In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves. He saw others sitting at tables, exchanging different kinds of money.

New English Translation
He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.

Contemporary English Version
There he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves in the temple. He also saw moneychangers sitting at their tables.

Complete Jewish Bible
In the Temple grounds he found those who were selling cattle, sheep and pigeons, and others who were sitting at tables exchanging money.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he found in the Temple those that sold oxen, and sheepe, and doues, and changers of money, sitting there.

George Lamsa Translation
And he found in the temple those who were buying oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting.

Hebrew Names Version
He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

International Standard Version
In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.Matthew 21:12; Mark 11:15; Luke 19:45;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And he found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting.

Murdock Translation
And he found in the temple those who sold beeves and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting [fn] .

New Living Translation
In the Temple area he saw merchants selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices; he also saw dealers at tables exchanging foreign money.

New Life Bible
He went into the house of God and found cattle and sheep and doves being sold. Men were sitting there changing money.

English Revised Version
And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

Berean Standard Bible
In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.

New Revised Standard
In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he found, in the temple, them that were selling oxen and sheep and doves, also the money-changers sitting.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

King James Version
And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

Lexham English Bible
And he found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And founde sittyng in the temple, those that solde oxen, and sheepe, and doues, and chaungers of money.

Easy-to-Read Version
There in the Temple area he saw men selling cattle, sheep, and doves. He saw others sitting at tables, exchanging and trading people's money.

English Standard Version
In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

New American Standard Bible
And within the temple grounds He found those who were selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.

Good News Translation
There in the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and pigeons, and also the moneychangers sitting at their tables.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he foond in the temple men sillynge oxun, and scheep, and culueris, and chaungeris sittynge.

Young's Literal Translation
and he found in the temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting,

Contextual Overview

¹² After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples. And He remained there not many days. ¹³ And the Passover of the Jews was near. And Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And He found those selling oxen and sheep and doves in the temple, and the money changers sitting. ¹⁵ And making a whip out of ropes, He threw all out of the temple, both the sheep, and the oxen, and the money changers, pouring out the money and overturning the tables. ¹⁶ And to the ones selling the doves, He said, Take these things from here! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise. ¹⁷ And His disciples remembered that it was written, "The zeal of Your house has consumed Me." Psa. 69:9 ¹⁸ Then the Jews answered and said to Him, What sign do You show to us, since You do these things? ¹⁹ Jesus said to them, Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up. ²⁰ Then the Jews said, This sanctuary was forty six years being built, and do You raise it up in three days? ²¹ But He spoke about the sanctuary of His body.

Bible Verse Review
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Deuteronomy 14:23-26, Matthew 21:12, Mark 11:15, Luke 19:45, Luke 19:46

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 14:26 - bestow Ezra 7:17 - buy speedily Psalms 26:8 - Lord Psalms 69:9 - zeal Malachi 3:1 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 10:11
From that land he went forth to Assyria and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth the city, and Calah,

Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem were Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 15:18
On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

Genesis 25:18
And they lived from Havilah to Shur, which is facing Egypt as you come toward Assyria; he settled facing all his brothers.

Deuteronomy 1:7
turn and pull up stakes and go into the hills of the Amorites, and to all its neighboring places in the Arabah, in the hills, and in the low country, and in the Negeb, and in the shore of the sea, the land of the Canaanites and of Lebanon, to the great river, the Euphrates River.

Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place where the sole of your foot treads shall be yours, from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the Euphrates River even to the furthest sea shall be your border.

Daniel 10:4
And in the twenty fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Tigris,

Revelation 9:14
saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Release the four angels, those having been bound at the great river Euphrates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And found in the temple,.... Not in the holy place itself, nor in the court of the priests, where the sacrifices were offered, nor in the court of the women, nor in the court of the Israelites, where the people worshipped; but in the court of the Gentiles, or the outward court, even all that space of ground which was between the wall which divided the whole from common ground, and the buildings of the temple, and which was open to the air; for the whole sacred enclosure, or all within the wall, went by the name of the temple. Into this all strangers might come; and the passover now being at hand, here were

those that sold oxen, and sheep, and doves: the oxen, or bullocks, were for the Chagigah, or feast kept on the second day of the passover; :-; and the sheep, or lambs, as the Persic version reads, for the passover supper; and the doves were for the offerings of the poorer sort of new mothers: with these they were supplied from the Mount of Olives. It is said c,

"there were two cedar trees on the Mount of Olives, and under one of them were four shops of them that sold things for purification; and out of one of them they brought forty bushels of young doves every month: and out of them the Israelites had enough for the nests, or the offerings of turtle doves;''

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and the changers of money sitting: who changed foreign money into the current coin of the Jews, strangers coming, at this feast, from several parts of the world; and sometimes there was need of changing shekels into half shekels, which, at certain times, were paid for the ransom of Israelites; see the note on the place above mentioned.

c Echa Rabbati, fol. 52. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Found in the temple ... - The transaction here recorded is in almost all respects similar to that which has been explained in the notes at Matthew 21:12. This took place at the commencement of his public ministry; that at the close. On each occasion he showed that his great regard was for the pure worship of his Father; and one great design of his coming was to reform the abuses which had crept into that worship, and to bring man to a proper regard for the glory of God. If it be asked how it was that those engaged in this traffic so readily yielded to Jesus of Nazareth, and that they left their gains and their property, and fled from the temple at the command of one so obscure as he was, it may be replied,

1. That their consciences reproved them for their impiety, and they could not set up the “appearance” of self-defense.
2. It was customary in the nation to cherish a profound regard for the authority of a prophet; and the appearance and manner of Jesus - so fearless, so decided, so authoritative led them to suppose “he” was a prophet, and they were afraid to resist him.
3. Even then, Jesus had a wide reputation among the people, but it is not improbable that many supposed him to be the Messiah.
4. Jesus on all occasions had a most wonderful control over people. None could resist him. There was something in his manner, as well as in his doctrine, that awed men, and made them tremble at his presence. Compare John 18:5-6. On this occasion he had the manner of a prophet, the authority of God, and the testimony of their own consciences, and they could not, therefore, resist the authority by which he spoke.

Though Jesus thus purified the temple at the commencement of his ministry, yet in three years the same scene was to be repeated. See Matthew 21:12. And from this we may learn:

1. How soon people forget the most solemn reproofs, and return to evil practices.
2. That no sacredness of time or place will guard them from sin. In the very temple, under the very eye of God, these people soon returned to practices for which their consciences reproved them, and which they knew that God disapproved.
3. We see here how strong is the love of gain - the ruling passion of mankind. Not even the sacredness of the temple, the presence of God, the awful ceremonials of religion, deterred them from this unholy traffic. So wicked men and hypocrites will always turn “religion,” if possible, into gain; and not even the sanctuary, the Sabbath, or the most awful and sacred scenes, will deter them from schemes of gain. Compare Amos 8:5. So strong is this grovelling passion, and so deep is that depravity which fears not God, and regards not his Sabbaths, his sanctuary, or his law.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 2:14. Found in the temple those that sold oxen, c.] This is a similar fact to that mentioned Matthew 21:12 Mark 11:15; Luke 19:45. See it explained on Matthew 21:12. If it be the same fact, then John anticipates three years of time in relating it here; as that cleansing of the temple mentioned by the other evangelists took place in the last week of our Lord's life. Mr. Mann, Dr. Priestley, and Bp. Pearce, contend that our Lord cleansed the temple only once; and that was at the last passover. Calvin, Mr. Mede, L'Enfant and Beausobre, Dr. Lardner, Bp. Hurd, and Bp. Newcome, contend that he purged the temple twice; and that this, mentioned by John, was the first cleansing, which none of the other evangelists have mentioned. Let the reader, says Bp. Newcome, observe the order of events.

"Jesus works his first miracle at Cana of Galilee, John 2:11; then he passes a few days at Capernaum, which bring him on his way to Jerusalem, John 2:12. The passover being near, he goes up to Jerusalem, John 2:13, and casts the traders out of the temple, John 2:15-16, At the passover he works many miracles, John 2:23. While he is in Jerusalem, which city he does not leave till, John 3:22, Nicodemus comes to him by night, John 3:1-2; 2 John 1:3John 3:2 contains a reference to John 2:23. After these things, Jesus departs from Jerusalem, and dwells and baptizes in Judea, John 3:22. And all these incidents take place before John was cast into prison, John 3:24. But the second cleansing of the temple happens most clearly during the last week of our Lord's life, after the death of the Baptist, and at a time when it would be absurd to say that afterwards Jesus dwelt and baptized in Judea."

The vindication of God's house from profanation was the first and the last care of our Lord; and it is probable he began and finished his public ministry by this significant act.

It certainly appears that John directly asserts an early cleansing of the temple, by the series of his history; as the other three evangelists assert a later cleansing of it. And though the act mentioned here seems to be nearly the same with that mentioned by the other evangelists, yet there are some differences. St. John alone mentions the scourge of rushes, and the casting out of the sheep and oxen. Besides, there is a considerable difference in our Lord's manner of doing it: in the cleansing mentioned by the three evangelists, he assumes a vast deal of authority, and speaks more pointedly concerning himself, than he appears to do in this cleansing mentioned by St. John: the reason which has been given is, In the first cleansing he was just entering upon his public ministry, and therefore avoided (as much as was consistent with the accomplishment of his work) the giving any offence to the Jewish rulers; but, in the last cleansing, he was just concluding his ministry, being about to offer up his life for the salvation of the world, in consequence of which he speaks fully and without reserve. For answers to all the objections made against two cleansings of the temple, see the notes at the end of Bp. Newcome's Greek Harmony of the Gospels, pp. 7-9.