John 2:17

World English Bible (2000)

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

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  • Ps 69:9 : 9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
  • Ps 119:139 : 139 My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

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  • John 2:13-16
    4 verses
    81%

    13The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

    14He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

    15He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables.

    16To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"

  • Ps 69:9
    79%

    9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

  • Mark 11:15-18
    4 verses
    78%

    15They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.

    16He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.

    17He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"

    18The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

  • Luke 19:45-46
    2 verses
    78%

    45He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,

    46saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"

  • Matt 21:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    12Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

    13He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"

  • Ps 119:139
    75%

    139My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

  • John 2:18-22
    5 verses
    72%

    18The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"

    19Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

    20The Jews therefore said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?"

    21But he spoke of the temple of his body.

    22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

  • Matt 21:15
    70%

    15But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant,

  • Matt 26:8
    70%

    8But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?

  • John 12:16
    70%

    16His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

  • Jer 7:11
    69%

    11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.

  • Ps 74:7
    69%

    7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

  • Mark 11:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

    12The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he was hungry.

  • Matt 12:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3But he said to them, "Haven't you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

    4how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

  • Mark 14:58
    68%

    58"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"

  • Matt 24:1
    68%

    1Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.

  • Ps 26:8
    68%

    8Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

  • Zech 8:2
    68%

    2Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath."

  • Luke 9:54
    68%

    54When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"

  • Luke 6:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3Jesus, answering them, said, "Haven't you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;

    4how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"

  • Mark 3:20
    68%

    20The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

  • Mark 2:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry--he, and those who were with him?

    26How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"

  • Matt 23:38
    68%

    38Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

  • Matt 26:61
    68%

    61and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"

  • 2 Chr 7:20
    68%

    20then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

  • Lam 2:6
    67%

    6He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

  • Isa 64:11
    67%

    11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

  • Ps 79:7
    67%

    7For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

  • Mark 15:29
    67%

    29Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

  • Mark 11:27
    67%

    27They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him,

  • Mark 7:17
    67%

    17When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
    67%

    17If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

  • Mark 13:1
    67%

    1As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!"

  • Luke 21:5
    66%

    5As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,