John 2:17
Good News Translation
His disciples remembered that the scripture says, "My devotion to your house, O God, burns in me like a fire."

New Revised Standard Version
His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

Contemporary English Version
The disciples then remembered that the Scriptures say, "My love for your house burns in me like a fire."

New American Bible
His disciples recalled the words of scripture, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.

The zeal.

Psalm 69:9 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Psalm 119:139 My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words.

Context
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
16And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic. 17And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up. 18The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?…
Cross References
Psalm 69:9
For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Psalm 119:139
My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words.

John 2:2
And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.

John 2:22
When therefore he was risen again from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this: and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had said.

John 2:16
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