JOHN—NOTE ON John 2:14 Temple here means the area surrounding the temple itself, including the Court of the Gentiles. By selling oxen, sheep, and pigeons, the merchants and the money-changers enabled travelers to Jerusalem to buy their sacrificial animals on-site. By conducting their business in the temple grounds, however, they disrupted the worship of non-Jewish God-fearers (see note on 12:20).

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