Mark 11:16

He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.

World English Bible
Learn

Your notes

Private to you. Anything you write on this verse, here or while reading, shows up here and in My study.

Other translations

WEBBE

He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.

BSB

And He would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.

KJV

And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.

ASV

and he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple.

BBE

And he would not let any man take a vessel through the Temple.

Original Greek

Look up a word

Tap a word to see what it means and everywhere else it's used.

καὶ kai And G2532 οὐκ ouk not G3756 ἤφιεν ēphien He was permiting G863 ἵνα ina that G2443 τις tis anyone G5100 διενέγκῃ dienegkē may carry G1308 σκεῦος skeuos a vessel G4632 διὰ dia through G1223 τοῦ tou the G3588 ἱεροῦ hi'erou temple G2411

The early church

(ubi sup.) He speaks of those vessels which were carried there for the purpose of merchandise. But God forbid that it should be taken to mean, that the Lord cast out of the temple, or forbade men to bring into it, the vessels consecrated to God; for here He shows a type of the judgment to come, for He thrusts away the wicked from the Church, and restrains them by His everlasting word from ever again coming in to trouble the Church. Furthermore, sorrow, sent into the heart from above, takes away from the souls of the faithful those sins which were in them, and Divine grace assists them so that they should never again commit them.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
He calls moneychangers, changers of a particular sort of money, for the word means a small brass coin. There follows, and the seats of them that sold doves. But if a man by sinning gives up to the devil the grace and purity of baptism, he has sold his Dove, and for this reason is cast out of the temple. There follows, And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. Further, He calls the temple, a den of thieves, on account of the money gained there; for thieves always troop together for gain. Since then they sold those animals which were offered in sacrifice for the sake of gain, He called them thieves. Which also turns to the greater condemnation of the Jews, because though the Lord did this so many times, nevertheless they did not correct their conduct.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 12–18

Christ looked to find some fruit, for the time of gathering figs, though it was near, was not yet come; but he found none. He made this fig-tree an example, not to the trees, but to the men of that generation. It was a figure of the doom upon the Jewish church, to which he came seeking fruit, but found none. Christ went to the temple, and began to reform the abuses in its courts, to show that when the Redeemer came to Zion, it was to turn away ungodliness from Jacob. The scribes and the chief priests sought, not how they might make their peace with him, but how they might destroy him. A desperate attempt, which they could not but fear was fighting against God.

Read Matthew Henry on Mark 11 →

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.