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12And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
Matthew 21:12 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 12-17)When Christ came into Jerusalem, he did not go up to the court or the palace, though he came in as a King, but into the temple ; for his kingdom is spiritual, and not of this world ; it is in holy things that he rules, in the temple of God that he exercises authority. Now, what did he do there? I. Thence he drove the buyers and sellers. Abuses must first be purged out, and the plants not of God’s ...
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