John 2:17

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

His disciples remembered that it was written - The zeal of thy house, eateth me up.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
When this happened, his followers remembered what was written in the Scriptures: "My strong devotion to your Temple will destroy me."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And his disciples remembred how yt it was wrytten: the zele of thyne housse hath even eaten me.

Hebrew Names Version
His talmidim remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

International Standard Version
His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."Psalm 69:9">[fn]Psalm 69:9;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
His disciples remembered that it was written: "ZEAL FOR YOUR HOUSE WILL CONSUME ME."

New Century Version
When this happened, the followers remembered what was written in the Scriptures: "My strong love for your Temple completely controls me."

Update Bible Version
His disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for your house shall eat me up.

Webster's Bible Translation
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.

English Standard Version
His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

World English Bible
His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

Weymouth's New Testament
This recalled to His disciples the words of Scripture, "My zeal for Thy House will consume me."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And hise disciplis hadden mynde, for it was writun, The feruent loue of thin hous hath etun me.

English Revised Version
His disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house shall eat me up.

Berean Standard Bible
His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for Your house will consume Me."

Contemporary English Version
The disciples then remembered that the Scriptures say, "My love for your house burns in me like a fire."

Amplified Bible
His disciples remembered that it is written [in the Scriptures], "ZEAL (love, concern) FOR YOUR HOUSE [and its honor] WILL CONSUME ME."

American Standard Version
His disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for thy house shall eat me up.

Bible in Basic English
And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.

Complete Jewish Bible
(His talmidim later recalled that the Tanakh says, "Zeal for your house will devour me." )

Darby Translation
[And] his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thy house devours me.

Etheridge Translation
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thy house hath devoured me.

Murdock Translation
And his disciples remembered, that it is written: The zeal of thy house hath devoured me.

King James Version (1611)
And his disciples remembred that it was written, The zeale of thine house hath eaten me vp.

New Living Translation
Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: "Passion for God's house will consume me."

New Life Bible
Then His followers remembered that it was written in the Holy Writings, "I am jealous for the honor of Your house."

New Revised Standard
His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And his disciples remembred, that it was written, The zeale of thine house hath eaten me vp.

George Lamsa Translation
And his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal for your house has given me courage.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.

Revised Standard Version
His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for thy house will consume me."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And his disciples remembred that it was written: The zeale of thine house hath euen eaten me.

Good News Translation
His disciples remembered that the scripture says, "My devotion to your house, O God, burns in me like a fire."

Christian Standard Bible®
And his disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal for your house will consume me.

King James Version
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

Lexham English Bible
His disciples remembered that it is written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

Literal Translation
And His disciples remembered that it was written, "The zeal of Your house has consumed Me." Psa. 69:9

Young's Literal Translation
And his disciples remembered that it is written, `The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His disciples remembred it, that is wrytten: The zele of thine house hath euen eaten me.

Mace New Testament (1729)
which put his disciples in mind of that passage, "my zeal for thine house does prey upon me."

New English Translation
His disciples remembered that it was written, " Zeal for your house will devour me ."

New King James Version
Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house has eaten [fn] Me up." Psalms 69:9">[fn]

Simplified Cowboy Version
His cowboys remembered that it had been written long ago, "I'll protect my Daddy's place at all cost."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
His disciples remembered that it was written, "ZEAL FOR YOUR HOUSE WILL CONSUME ME."

Legacy Standard Bible
His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house will consume me."

Contextual Overview

¹² After this, he came down into Capernaum, - he, and his mother and brethren, and his disciples; and, there, they abode, not many days. ¹³ And, near, was the passover of the Jews; and, Jesus, went up unto Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And he found, in the temple, them that were selling oxen and sheep and doves, also the money-changers sitting. ¹⁵ And, making a scourge out of rushes, all of them, thrust he forth out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and, the money-changers' small coins, poured he forth, and, the tables, he overturned; ¹⁶ and unto them who were selling, the doves, he said - Take these things hence! Be not making, the house of my Father, a house of merchandise. ¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written - The zeal of thy house, eateth me up. ¹⁸ The Jews therefore answered, and said unto him, What sign, dost thou point out to us, in that, these things, thou doest? ¹⁹ Jesus answered, and said unto them - Take down this shrine, and, in three days, will I raise it. ²⁰ The Jews, therefore, said - In forty and six years, was this shrine built. And, thou, in three days, wilt raise it! ²¹ But, he, was speaking concerning the shrine of his body.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The zeal: Psalms 69:9, Psalms 119:139

Reciprocal: Numbers 25:13 - zealous 1 Samuel 4:22 - The glory 2 Samuel 7:2 - the ark 1 Kings 19:10 - very jealous 2 Kings 19:31 - the zeal Psalms 122:9 - the house Isaiah 59:17 - with zeal Luke 2:49 - my John 2:22 - his 2 Corinthians 7:11 - zeal 2 Corinthians 11:29 - and I burn Galatians 4:18 - it is Revelation 3:19 - be

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
Thus were finished the heavens and the earth and all their host.

Genesis 2:4
These are the geneses of the heavens and the earth when they were created, - in the day when Yahweh God made earth and heavens.

Genesis 2:6
but, a vapour, went up from the earth, - and watered all the face of the ground.

Genesis 2:9
And Yahweh God, caused to spring up, out of the ground, every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food, - and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:10
Now, a river, was coming forth out of Eden, to water the garden, - and, from thence, it parted, and became four heads,

Genesis 2:12
moreover the gold of that and, is good, - there, is the bdellium, and the beryl stone,

Genesis 2:13
And the name of the second river, is Gihon, - the same, is that which surroundeth all the land of Cush,

Genesis 2:18
And Yahweh God said, It is, not good, that the man should remain alone, - I will make for him a helper as his counterpart.

Genesis 2:20
So the man gave names to all the tame-beasts, and to the birds of the heavens, and to all the wild-beasts of the field, - but, for man, had there not been found a helper as his counterpart.

Genesis 2:21
So Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept, - and he took one of his ribs, and closed up flesh instead thereof.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his disciples remembered that it was written,.... In

Psalms 69:9, which Psalm belongs to the Messiah, as is manifest from the citations out of it in the New Testament, and the application of them to Christ, as in John 15:25, compared with

Psalms 69:4. Christ is represented in it, as suffering for the sins of his people; for he himself was innocent; and was hated without a cause; but having the sins of his people imputed to him, he made satisfaction for them, and so restored what he took not away. His sufferings are spoken of in it as very great; and from it we learn, that they are fitly called, by himself, a baptism, which he desired to be baptized with, Luke 12:50, since the waters are said to come into his soul, and he to be in deep waters, where the floods overflowed him; so that he was as one immersed in them: it is not only prophesied of him in it, that he should be the object of the scorn and contempt of the Jewish nation, and be rejected by them, and treated with the utmost indignity, and loaded with reproaches; but it foretold, that they should give him gall to eat, and vinegar to drink, which were literally fulfilled in him: and even the Jews themselves seem to be under some conviction, that the Psalm has respect to him; for Aben Ezra, a noted commentator of theirs, on the last words of the Psalm, has this note;

"the sense is, they and their children shall inherit it in the days of David, or in the days of the Messiah.''

It appears from hence, that the disciples of Christ were acquainted with the sacred writings, and had diligently read them, and searched into them, and had made them their study; and upon this wonderful action of Christ, called to mind, and reflected upon the following passage of Scripture, which they judged very proper and pertinent to him:

the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. This passage, so far as it is cited, agrees exactly, word for word, with the original text in

Psalms 69:9, wherefore it is very strange that Surenhusius f should remark a difference, and give himself a good deal of trouble to reconcile it: he observes, that in the Hebrew text, it is read, יהוה

קנאת, "the zeal of the Lord", in the third person; whereas it is there, קנאת ביתך, "the zeal of thine house", as here, in the second person: indeed, the word כי, "for", is left out, as he remarks, there being no need of it in the citation; the evangelist only historically relating the accommodation of it to Christ, by the disciples; whereas in the original text, the words contain a reason of the reproach and shame which Christ endured, and was put to by the Jews on account of his zeal for the house, honour, and worship of God; and the latter part of the text is not produced at all, being not for the present purpose, though very applicable to Christ; and is cited, and applied to him by the apostle, in Romans 15:3. Such was Christ's regard to his Father's house, and which was typical of the church of God; and such his concern for his honour, ordinances, and worship, that when he saw the merchandise that was carried on in the temple, his zeal, which was a true and hearty affection for God, and was according to knowledge, was stirred up in him, and to such a degree, that it was like a consuming fire within him, that ate up his spirits; so that he could not forbear giving it vent, and expressing it in the manner he did, by driving those traders out of it. Phinehas and Elias were in their zeal, as well as other things, types of Christ; and in the Spirit and power of the latter he came; and Christ not only expressed a zeal for the house of God, the place of religious worship, but for the church and people of God, whose salvation he most earnestly desired, and most zealously pursued: he showed his strong, and affectionate regard to it, by his suretyship engagements for them, by his assumption of their nature, by his ardent desire to accomplish it, and by his voluntary and cheerful submission to death on account of it. And such was his zeal for it, that it eat him up, it inflamed his Spirit and affections, consumed his time and strength, and, at last, his life: and he also showed a zeal for the discipline of God's house, by his severe reflections on human traditions; by asserting the spirituality of worship; by commanding a strict regard to divine institutions; and by sharply inveighing against the sins of professors of religion: and he discovered a warm zeal for the truths of the Gospel, by a lively and powerful preaching of them; by his constancy and assiduity in it; by the many fatiguing journeys he took for that purpose; by the dangers he exposed himself to by it; and by the care he took to free the Gospel from prejudice and calumnies: and it becomes us, in imitation of our great master, to be zealous for his truths and ordinances, and for the discipline of his house, and not bear with either the erroneous principles, or the bad practices of wicked men.

f Biblos Katallages, p. 347.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It was written ... - This is recorded in Psalms 69:9. Its meaning is, that he was affected with great zeal or concern for the pure worship of God.

The zeal of thine house - “Zeal” is intense ardor in reference to any object. The “zeal of thine house” means extraordinary concern for the temple of God; intense solicitude that the worship there should be pure, and such as God would approve.

Hath eaten me up - Hath absorbed me, or engaged my entire attention and affection; hath surpassed all other feelings, so that it may be said to be the one great absorbing affection and desire of the mind. Here is an example set for ministers and for all Christians. In Jesus this was the great commanding sentiment of his life. In us it should be also. In this manifestation of zeal he began and ended his ministry. In this we should begin and end our lives. We learn, also, that ministers of religion should aim to purify the church of God. Wicked men, conscience-smitten, will tremble when they see proper zeal in the ministers of Jesus Christ; and there is no combination of wicked men, and no form of depravity, that can stand before the faithful, zealous, pure preaching of the gospel. The preaching of every minister should be such that wicked men will feel that they must either become Christians or leave the house of God, or spend their lives there in the consciousness of guilt and the fear of hell.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 2:17. The zeal of thine house — See Psalms 59:10. Zeal to promote thy glory, and to keep thy worship pure.