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A Clear Claim to Sonship
By calling the temple "My Father's house," Jesus makes a clear and public claim to be the Son of God. Commentators note this echoes his words as a boy in the temple (Luke 2:49) and fulfills the prophecy of the Lord suddenly coming to His temple (Malachi 3:1). This act wasn't just a protest; it was the Son asserting His divine authority over His Father's domain.
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AT Robertson
On John 2:16
Take these things hence (Αρατε ταυτα εντευθεν). First aorist active imperative of αιρω. Probably the doves were in baskets or cage…
Charles Ellicott
On John 2:16
19th Century
Bishop
My Father’s house. Some among those present now (John 2:18) may have been present in that same house when He, a boy of…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 2:16
Jesus’ action precipitated wild confusion. The animals would be bawling and running about aimlessly; the money changers would be scrambling for the…
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John Calvin
On John 2:16
16th Century
Theologian
Make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise. At the second time that he drove the traders out of the Temple, the Evangelists relate …
John Gill
On John 2:16
17th Century
Pastor
And said to them that sold doves
For as these were kept in coups, or cages, they could not be drove, as the sheep an…
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…