when he had made a scourge Peculiar to this account; not in the similar narrative of the Synoptists.

and the sheep, &c. Rather, both the sheep and the oxen. -All" does not refer to the sellers and exchangers, but anticipates the sheep and the oxen. The men probably fled at once. The order is natural; first the driving out of the cattle, then the pouring out of the money and overturning the tables. The word for -money" literally means -something cut up small," hence -change." The common exchange would be foreign money for Jewish, payments to the Temple being necessarily made in Jewish coin.

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