John 2:16

“And said unto them that sold doves, etc.] For as these were kept in coups, or cages, they could not be drove, as the sheep and oxen, nor could they be let out, and fly, without the loss of the owners: and therefore Christ said to them, take these things hence; not only the doves, but the pens, coups, or cages, in which they were, and both together: make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise; so he calls the temple, which was built as an house for God, and where he took up his residence; where were the symbols of his presence; where his worship was kept, and sacrifices offered to him: and he asserts God, whose house this was, to be his Father, and himself to be his son, as none of the…”

“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…”

“make: Isa 56:5-11; Jer 7:11; Hos 12:7, Hos 12:8; Mat 21:13; Mar 11:17; Act 19:24-27; Ti1 6:5; Pe2 2:3, Pe2 2:14, Pe2 2:15 my: Joh 5:17, Joh 8:49, Joh 10:29, Joh 20:17; Luk 2:49 John 2:17”