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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 2:16 - 2:16
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my Father’s house - How close the resemblance of these remarkable words to Luk 2:49; the same consciousness of intrinsic relation to the temple - as the seat of His Father’s most august worship, and so the symbol of all that is due to Him on earth - dictating both speeches. Only, when but a youth, with no authority, He was simply “a SON IN His own house”; now He was “a SON OVER His own house” (Heb 3:6), the proper Representative, and in flesh “the Heir,” of his Father’s rights.
house of merchandise - There was nothing wrong in the merchandise; but to bring it, for their own and others’ convenience, into that most sacred place, was a high-handed profanation which the eye of Jesus could not endure.