SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:16
y a los que vendían las palomas, dijo: Quitad de aquí esto; no hagis la Casa de mi Padre casa de mercado.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. And said unto them that sold doves , etc.] For as these were kept in coups, or cages, they could not be drove, as the sheep and oxen, nor could they be let out, and fly, without the loss of the owners: and therefore Christ said to them, take these things hence ; not only the doves, but the pens, coups, or cages, in which they were, and both together: make not my Fathers house an house of merchandise ; so he calls the temple, which was built as an house for God, and where he took up his residence; where were the symbols of his presence; where his worship was kept, and sacrifices offered to him: and he asserts God, whose house this was, to be his Father, and himself to be his son, as none of the prophets that went before him did; and in such sense as neither men nor angels are; and which carries in it a reason why he was so much concerned for the honour of God, and so much resented the profanation of his house, because he was his Father. A like action with this, done by Christ at another time, is recorded in ( Matthew 21:12,13). This was at the beginning of his ministry, that at the close of it, in which he expressed himself with more warmth and severity than here: here he only charges them with making his Fathers house an house of merchandise, but there with making it a den of thieves; since they had not only slighted, and despised his first reproof, but had returned to their evil ways, and might grow more wicked and audacious. This instance of Christ now coming into the temple as a public minister, and which was the first time of his entrance into it, after he had taken this character, was a further accomplishment of ( Malachi 3:1), for he now went into it, as the Lord and proprietor of it; and which this action of his in driving out the merchants, with their cattle, shows; and was a surprising instance of his divine power; and is equal to other miracles of his, that a single person, a stranger, one of no power and authority in the government, unassisted and unarmed, with only a scourge of small cords, should carry such awe and majesty with him, and inject such terror into, and drive such a number of men before him, who were selling things for religious uses, and were supported in it by the priests and sanhedrim of the nation.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-22 - The first public work in which we find Christ engaged, was driving from the temple the traders whom the covetous priests and rulers encourage to make a market-place of its courts. Those now make God's house house of merchandise, whose minds are filled with cares about worldl business when attending religious exercises, or who perform Divin offices for love of gain. Christ, having thus cleansed the temple, gav a sign to those who demanded it, to prove his authority for so doing He foretells his death by the Jews' malice, Destroy ye this temple; will permit you to destroy it. He foretells his resurrection by his ow power; In three days I will raise it up. Christ took again his ow life. Men mistake by understanding that according to the letter, whic the Scripture speaks by way of figure. When Jesus was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered he has said this. It helps much i understanding the Divine word, to observe the fulfilling of the Scriptures.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ τοις 3588 T-DPM τας 3588 T-APF περιστερας 4058 N-APF πωλουσιν 4453 5723 V-PAP-DPM ειπεν 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3S αρατε 142 5657 V-AAM-2P ταυτα 5023 D-APN εντευθεν 1782 ADV μη 3361 PRT-N ποιειτε 4160 5720 V-PAM-2P τον 3588 T-ASM οικον 3624 N-ASM του 3588 T-GSM πατρος 3962 N-GSM μου 3450 P-1GS οικον 3624 N-ASM εμποριου 1712 N-GSN
Vincent's NT Word Studies
16. My Father's house. See on Father's business, Luke ii. 49, and compare Matt. xxiii. 38, where Jesus speaks of the temple as your house. The people had made God's house their own.Merchandise (emporiou). Only here in the New Testament. The Synoptists say a den of robbers.
