Mark Chapter 11 verse 16 Holy Bible
and he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple.
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And he would not let any man take a vessel through the Temple.
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and suffered not that any one should carry any package through the temple.
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And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
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He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.
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and he did not suffer that any might bear a vessel through the temple,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - And he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple. It was a great temptation to make the temple, at least the great court of the Gentiles, a thoroughfare. It was so extensive that a long and tedious circuit would be avoided, in going from one part of the city to another, by passing through it. To those, for example, who were passing from the sheep market, Bethesda, into the upper part of the city, the shortest cut was through this court and by Solomon's Porch. The distance would be greatly increased if they went round it. So the priests permitted servants and laborers, laden with anything, to take this shorter way through the great court of the temple. But our Lord hindered them, forbidding them with the voice of one that had authority, and restraining them with his hand, and compelling them to go back. He would have the whole of his Father's House regarded as sacred.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) And would not suffer that any man.--Peculiar to St. Mark. The vessels referred to included, probably, the baskets and other common implements of traffic. Men were using the courts of the Temple as a short cut from one part of the city to another.
