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A Corrupted Convenience
Commentators explain the market was in the Court of the Gentiles, the only temple area non-Jews could enter. While it may have begun as a convenience for pilgrims needing animals for sacrifice and proper currency for temple dues, it had become a corrupt, profit-driven enterprise that desecrated the space meant for worship.
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Albert Barnes
On John 2:14
18th Century
Theologian
Found in the temple, etc. The transaction recorded here is in almost all respects similar to that which has been explained (see Barnes on …
AT Robertson
On John 2:14
Those that sold (τους πωλουντας). Present active articular participle of πωλεω, to sell. They were in the Court of the Gentiles wi…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 2:14
About the time of the Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem from Galilee for the annual feast. The narrative poses a chronological puzzle, for the S…
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John Gill
On John 2:14
17th Century
Pastor
And found in the temple
Not in the holy place itself, nor in the court of the priests, where the sacrifices were off…
Matthew Henry
On John 2:12–22
17th Century
Minister
The first public work in which we find Christ engaged was driving the traders from the temple, whom the covetous priests and rulers encouraged to m…