John 2:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

John 2:17 —

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Psalms 69:9
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Psalms 119:139
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-22)

Here we have, I. The short visit Christ made to Capernaum, John 2:12. It was a large and populous city, about a day’s journey from Cana; it is called his own city (Matt. 9:1), because he made it his head-quarters in Galilee, and what little rest he had was there. It was a place of concourse, and therefore Christ chose it, that the fame of his doctrine and miracles might thence spread the further.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

14-17. in the temple--not the temple itself, as Joh 2:19-21, but the temple-court. sold oxen, &c.--for the convenience of those who had to offer them in sacrifice. changers of money--of Roman into Jewish money, in which the temple dues (see on Mt 17:24) had to be paid.