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John 2:16
And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.
John 2:16 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
John 2:16 in other translations
And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”
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In context
13 And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
15 And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen: and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.
16 And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.
17 And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
18 The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?
19 Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up.
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