John 2:17 (BSB)
His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
Commentary on John 2:17
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on John 2:17: 17. And his disciples remembered. It is to no purpose that some people tease themselves with the inquiry how the disciples remembered a passage of Scripture, with the meaning of which they were hitherto unacquainted. For we must not understand that this passage of Scripture came to their remembrance at that time; but afterwards, when, having been taught by God, they considered with themselves what...
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on John 2:12-22: Here we have, I. The short visit Christ made to Capernaum, Joh 2:12. It was a large and populous city, about a day's journey from Cana; it is called his own city (Mat 9:1), because he made it his head-quarters in Galilee, and what little rest he had was there.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on John 2:17: And his disciples remembered that it was written,.... In Psa 69:9, which Psalm belongs to the Messiah, as is manifest from the citations out of it in the New Testament, and the application of them to Christ, as in Joh 15:25, compared with Psa 69:4.
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on John 2:17: Verse 17. It was written, &c. This is recorded in . Its meaning is, that he was affected with great zeal or concern for the pure worship of God. The zeal of thine house. Zeal is intense ardour in reference to any object.