Bible Cross References
and Jesus
Matthew 21:12-16
12
Jesus went into the Temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the stools of those who sold pigeons,
13
and said to them, "It is written in the Scriptures that God said, 'My Temple will be called a house of prayer.' But you are making it a hideout for thieves!"
14
The blind and the crippled came to him in the Temple, and he healed them.
15
The chief priests and the teachers of the Law became angry when they saw the wonderful things he was doing and the children shouting in the Temple, "Praise to David's Son!"
16
So they asked Jesus, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Indeed I do," answered Jesus. "Haven't you ever read this scripture? 'You have trained children and babies to offer perfect praise.' "
Luke 19:45
Then Jesus went into the Temple and began to drive out the merchants,
John 2:13-17
13
It was almost time for the Passover Festival, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
14
There in the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and pigeons, and also the moneychangers sitting at their tables.
15
So he made a whip from cords and drove all the animals out of the Temple, both the sheep and the cattle; he overturned the tables of the moneychangers and scattered their coins;
16
and he ordered those who sold the pigeons, "Take them out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"
17
His disciples remembered that the scripture says, "My devotion to your house, O God, burns in me like a fire."
the tables
Deuteronomy 14:25
Sell your produce and take the money with you to the one place of worship.
Deuteronomy 14:26
Spend it on whatever you want---beef, lamb, wine, beer---and there, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your families are to eat and enjoy yourselves.