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John 2:15

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;

KJV

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,

Greek NT

Et cum fecisset quasi flagellum de funiculis, omnes ejecit de templo, oves quoque, et boves, et numulariorum effudit æs, et mensas subvertit.

Vulgate

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;

ASV

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.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

βοῦς
bous
noun · 8×
κέρμα
kerma
noun · 1×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κολλυβιστής
kollubistes
noun · 3×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
πρόβατον
probaton
noun · 39×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
σχοινίον
schoinion
noun · 2×
τέ
te
particle · 214×
τράπεζα
trapeza
noun · 15×
φραγέλλιον
phragellion
noun · 1×
ἀνατρέπω
anatrepo
verb · 3×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐκβάλλω
ekballo
verb · 80×
ἐκχέω
ekcheo
verb · 27×
ἱερόν
ieron
noun · 72×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: τὰ κέρματα | WH/Treg: τὰ κέρματα | NIV/RP: τὸ κέρμα
  • τὰ κέρματαSBLGNT
  • τὰ κέρματαWestcott-Hort, Tregelles
  • τὸ κέρμαReader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἀνέστρεψεν | Treg/RP: ἀνέστρεψεν | WH/NIV: ἀνέτρεψεν
  • ἀνέστρεψενSBLGNT
  • ἀνέστρεψενTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
  • ἀνέτρεψενWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. Jesus Comes to Capernaum. Statements of the Four Evangelists Regarding This. After this John 2:12-25 He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples; and there they abode not many days. And the passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and He found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers…

Cross-references

  • Zech 14:21 — Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more t