Bible verse
In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.
John 2:14 · BSB
The verses around it, from John 2.
10 and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!”
11 Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.
12 After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
13 When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.
15 So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
16 To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
18 On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”
KJV
And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
ASV
And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
ERV
And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
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