Teks -- Mark 11:15 (NET)

Cleansing the Temple

11:15 Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Mar 11:15 - Began to cast out

Began to cast out ( ērxato ekballein ).

Mark is fond of "began."See note on Mat 21:12. for discussion of this second cleansing of the temple in its bearing on that in Joh 2:14.

Robertson: Mar 11:15 - Money-changers

Money-changers ( kollubistōn ).

This same late word in Mat 21:12 which see for discussion. It occurs in papyri.

Vincent: Mar 11:15 - Money-changers

Money-changers ( κολλυβιστῶν )

Another unclassical word, but used also by Matthew. " Such words as these might naturally find their place in the mongrel Greek of the slaves and freedmen who formed the first congregations of the church in Rome" (Ezra Abbott, Art. " Gospels," in Encyc. Britannica). See on Mat 21:12.

Wesley: Mar 11:15

Mat 21:12; Luk 19:45.

Clarke: Mar 11:15 - And they come

And they come - Several MSS. and versions have παλιν, again. This was the next day after our Lord’ s triumphant entry into Jerusalem; for on the evening of that day he went to Bethany, and lodged there, Mar 11:11, and Mat 21:17, and returned the next morning to Jerusalem.

TSK: Mar 11:15 - and Jesus // the tables

and Jesus : Mat 21:12-16; Luk 19:45; Joh 2:13-17

the tables : Deu 14:25, Deu 14:26

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Mar 11:11-19

Ver. 11-19. See Poole on "Mat 21:12" , and following verses to Mat 21:17 , where having so largely spoken to this part of the history, considering also what Mark and Luke hath to complete the history, few words will be needful about it here. Though Mark seems to relate it so, as if the first day Christ came into the temple, looked about it, and did no more till he came back from Bethany (whither he went that night) the next day, yet the other evangelists’ relation of it would make one think otherwise, besides that interpreters think it not probable that our Saviour the first night should only look about, and patiently see and suffer those abuses; most do therefore think that our Saviour the first day did cast out those that sold and bought in the temple. In the notes upon Matthew we have given an account of the market in the court of the Gentiles, which was the outward court of the temple, where, through the covetousness of the priests, some say there were constant shops. In the temple there were, the most holy place, into which the priests only entered, and the holy place, into which entered all the circumcised, whether native Jews or proselytes: these two places they accounted holy. But there was also a court which they called the court of the Gentiles, of which they had no such esteem, but allowed the keeping of shops and markets in it, especially before the passover. Concerning our Saviour’ s driving out these buyers and sellers, See Poole on "Mat 21:12" . See Poole on "Mat 21:13" . In those notes also I have fully opened the history concerning our Saviour’ s cursing the barren fig tree, and given what account interpreters do give of the difficulty arising from Mar 11:13 , as to which I have nothing to add here, save this only, offering it to learned persons to consider, whether the sense of these words, ou gar hn cairov sucwn , be any more than, for there were no figs. He found nothing but leaves, for there were no figs, as if it had been ou gar hsan suca . So as cairov there should neither signify the common time when figs use to be ripe, nor yet signify the seasonableness of the year for figs, but particularly relate to that tree, which at that time had no figs. But enough hath been before said as to that text.

Gill: Mar 11:15 - And they came to Jerusalem // and Jesus went into the temple // and began to cast out them that bought and sold in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves

And they came to Jerusalem,.... The Ethiopic version reads, "he came"; that is, Christ; but not alone, for his disciples were with him: Beza says, that, one exemplar he had met with, adds "again", and so one of Stephens's copies; for they had been there the day before:

and Jesus went into the temple: the Syriac and Persic versions add, "of God"; into the court of the Gentiles, as he did the preceding day:

and began to cast out them that bought and sold in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves; which was done, as Matthew relates, the same day that he made his public entry into Jerusalem: wherefore it is highly probable, that upon Christ's leaving the city, they returned "again", and were the next morning sitting and doing business in the temple as before; and were drove out again by Christ, who, upon his return, found them there. They "that bought and sold in the temple", were those that bought and sold lambs for the passover, which was now at hand; and the sheep and oxen for the "Chagiga", or feast the day following; as well as doves hereafter mentioned, for new mothers, and such as had fluxes: and that part of the temple where this business was carried on, was in a large space within the area of the temple, where shops were built for that purpose: and by "the money changers", whose "tables" are said to be "overthrown", are meant, such as sat at tables to receive the half shekel, who changed those that brought whole shekels, or foreign money: and who had so much for changing, which was called "Kolbon"; from whence they had the name of "Collybistae", in the text: and "doves", as before observed, were the offering of the poorer sort of women after birth, at the time of their purification, and of profluvious persons; of which many came from all parts, at the time of the passover: upon which account, there was a great demand for these creatures; and many sat upon seats to sell them, which Christ overturned; See Gill on Mat 21:12.