John 2:15-17

The Voice

¹⁵ Jesus fashioned a whip of cords and used it with skill driving out animals; He scattered the money and overturned the tables, emptying profiteers from the house of God. ¹⁶ There were dove merchants still standing around, and Jesus reprimanded them.

¹⁷ The disciples were astounded, but they remembered that the Hebrew Scriptures said, “Jealous devotion for God’s house consumes me.”^[a]