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Jesus Cleanses the Temple

John 2:15

In 9 translations

BSB
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.
KJV
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
WEB
He made a whip of cords and drove all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables.
ASV
and he made a scourge of cords, and cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew their tables;
LSV
and having made a whip of small cords, He put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money-changers, and He overthrew the tables,
YLT
and having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,
DBY
and, having made a scourge of cords, he cast [them] all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the change of the money-changers, and overturned the tables,
DRC
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.
GNV
Then hee made a scourge of small cordes, and draue them all out of the Temple with the sheepe and oxen, and powred out the changers money, and ouerthrewe the tables,

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read τὸ (“the”); SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read τὰ (“the”).
  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read κέρμα (“coin”); SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read κέρματα (“coins”).
  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, Westcott–Hort read ἀνέτρεψεν (“He overthrew”); SBLGNT (2010), Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἀνέστρεψεν (“He returned”).
SBLGNT apparatus (2)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

  • SBLGNT: τὰ κέρματα. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles read τὰ κέρματα; Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read τὸ κέρμα.
  • SBLGNT: ἀνέστρεψεν. Tregelles, Robinson–Pierpont read ἀνέστρεψεν; Westcott and Hort (1881), Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἀνέτρεψεν.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ ποιήσας φραγέλλιον ἐκ σχοινίων πάντας ἐξέβαλεν ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ τά τε πρόβατα καὶ τοὺς βόας, καὶ τῶν κολλυβιστῶν ἐξέχεεν τὰ κέρματα καὶ τὰς τραπέζας ἀνέστρεψεν,
RP2018
Καὶ ποιήσας φραγέλλιον ἐκ σχοινίων πάντας ἐξέβαλεν ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ, τά τε πρόβατα καὶ τοὺς βόας· καὶ τῶν κολλυβιστῶν ἐξέχεεν τὸ κέρμα, καὶ τὰς τραπέζας ἀνέστρεψεν·
TR-Boyd
Καὶ ποιήσας φραγέλλιον ἐκ σχοινίων πάντας ἐξέβαλεν ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ, τά τε πρόβατα καὶ τοὺς βόας· καὶ τῶν κολλυβιστῶν ἐξέχεε τὸ κέρμα, καὶ τὰς τραπέζας ἀνέστρεψε·
SCR1894
και ποιησας φραγελλιον εκ σχοινιων παντας εξεβαλεν εκ του ιερου τα τε προβατα και τους βοας και των κολλυβιστων εξεχεεν το κερμα και τας τραπεζας ανεστρεψεν

Who and where

◆ First Passover and Temple Cleansing

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Zechariah 4:6So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.
  • 2 Corinthians 10:4The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
  • John 18:6When Jesus said, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

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