Cross references

John 2:16

To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

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John 2:16 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 7:11 (28 votes) and Matthew 21:13 (28 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 20 other books, from Genesis 34 to Revelation 18.

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Which verses does John 2:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.

  2. And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

  3. Mark 11:1720 votes

    Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

  4. I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off. And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant— …

  5. Luke 2:4915 votes

    “Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”

  6. Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed. They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

  7. A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands. And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”

  8. John 5:173 votes

    But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”

  9. In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

  10. John 20:172 votes

    “Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”

  11. John 8:490 votes

Which verses point to John 2:16?

The 10 strongest of 22.