John 2:15 cracking the whip/scourge/stripes/buying and selling

LittleLambofJesus · Jun 13, 2018

I would like to study on the whip, and the buyers and sellers in John 2:15 in relation to Revelation and the OT.

7752 showt shote from 7751; a lash (literally or figuratively):--scourge, whip

Nahum 3:2
A sound of a Whip/שׁוֹט (showt)<7752>, and sound of a quaking wheel, and horse galloping, and chariot leaping.
A horseman mounting. And blazing sword, and flashing spear,
and many wounded and mass of corpses and there is no end to bodies. [Isaiah 28 "scourge"]

The word for whip, #5416, is used only 1 time in the NT:

5416. phragellion frag-el'-le-on neuter of a derivative from the base of 5417; a whip, i.e. Roman lash as a public punishment:--scourge.

John 2:
14 and He found in the Temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting, [Luke 19:45]
15 and having made a whip/fragellion<5416> of small cords, He put all forth out of the Temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,

I will continue on the next post.

LittleLambofJesus · Jun 24, 2018

Nahum 3:2
A sound of a Whip/שׁוֹט (showt)<7752>, and sound of a quaking wheel, and horse galloping, and chariot leaping.
A horseman mounting. And blazing sword, and flashing spear,
and many wounded and mass of corpses and there is no end to bodies.

1st let's look at the OT usage.

[It appears every time I go look up a word I am studying on, I run into words that are used in the NT, such as "scorpions", death and hades.]

1Ki 12:11 [1 King 12:11,14, 2 Chronicles 10:2, 4
And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke:
my father hath chastised you with whips, H7752 but I will chastise you with scorpions

Isaiah 28:15
Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge /H7752 when it passeth over, Doth not meet us,
Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'
18 And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand,
An overflowing scourge,/H7752when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.

Scorpions, death and hades in NT:

Rev 1:18
and he Who is living, and I did become dead and behold! I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! And I am having the keys of the hades and of the death.

Luk 10:19 “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy,
and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Rev 9:3
Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the land.
And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the land have power.

5 months [150 days] is the amount of time the flood covered the earth, and coincidentally, according to Josephus, the amount of time it took the Roman army to decimate Jerusalem in 70ad.
Fascinating.

Gen 7:24
And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.

Rev 9:10
They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months

The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD

The day on which Titus encompassed Jerusalem, was the feast of the Passover

...............This memorable siege terminated on the eighth day of the ninth month, A.D. 70 : its duration was nearly five months,
the Romans having invested the City on the fourteenth day of the fourth month, preceeding.

Revelation 6:6 And I hear a voice in midst of the four living-ones saying: "choinex of grain/wheat a denarius and three choinex of barleys a denarius,
and the oil and the wine no you should be injuring".

Next post will be on the NT usage of "whips, scourgings"

LittleLambofJesus · Jun 24, 2018

All 4 of the Gospels record the event of Jesus cleansing the Temple of buyers, sellers and money changers, but it appears that only John mentions the whip.
John 2 also appears to give the longest and perhaps a more detailed version of that story.

John 2:
15 and having made a whip/fragellion<5416> of small cords, He put all forth out of the Temple, also the sheep and the oxen, and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,

For this post, I am just going to put up the passages and then discuss certain verses in the next post.
Particularly the buyers and sellers.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple
(Matthew 21:12-17; Mark 11:15-19; John 2:12-25)

Matthew 21:
12 And Jesus entered into the Temple of God, and did cast forth all those selling and buying in the Temple, and the tables of the money-changers He overturned, and the seats of those selling the doves
13 and he saith to them, ‘It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.’
14 And there came to him blind and lame men in the Temple, and He healed them,
15 and the chief priests and the scribes having seen the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David,’ were much displeased

Luke 19:
45 And having entered into the temple, he began to cast forth those selling in it, and those buying, 46 saying to them, ‘It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer — but ye made it a den of robbers.’
47 And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him — also the chiefs of the people —
48 and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him.

Mark 11:
15 And they come to Jerusalem, and Jesus having gone into the Temple, began to cast forth those selling and buying in the Temple, and the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those selling the doves, He overthrew,

16 and He did not suffer that any might bear a vessel through the Temple,
17 and He was teaching, saying to them, ‘Hath it not been written — My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?’
18 And the scribes and the chief priests heard, and they were seeking how they shall destroy Him, for they were afraid of Him, because all the multitude was astonished at His teaching;

John 2:
13 And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
14 and he found in the Temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting,
15 and having made a whip/fragellion<5416> of small cords, He put all forth out of the Temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,
16 and to those selling the doves he said, ‘Take these things hence; make not the House of My Father a house of merchandise.’

17 And His disciples remembered that it is written, ‘The zeal of Thy House did eat me up;’
18 the Jews then answered and said to Him, ‘What sign dost Thou shew to us — that Thou dost these things?’
19 Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Destroy this Sanctuary and in three days I will raise it up.’
20 The Jews therefore said, ‘Forty and six years was this Sanctuary building, and wilt Thou in three days raise it up?’
21 but He spake concerning the Sanctuary of His body;
22 when then He was raised out of the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.

LittleLambofJesus · Jun 25, 2018

Except for Luke 19 [which doesn't show any animals or doves],
the 3 other Gospels all have doves but only John 2 includes sheep and oxen.

Only John the Revelator shows animals along with doves ....... sheep and oxen and doves:

John 2:
13 And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
14 and he found in the Temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting, [Revelation 18:13]

I then went to Revelation to find out if any of those were in it, and lo and behold! Sheep is mentioned:

Revelation 18:
11 ‘And the merchants of the shall shall weep and sorrow over Her because their lading no one doth buy any more;
12 lading of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet,
and all thyne wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel of most precious wood, and brass, and iron, and marble,
13 and cinnamon, and odours, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat,
and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies and souls of men.
14 ‘And the fruits of the desire of thy soul did go away from thee, and all things — the dainty and the bright — did go away from thee, and no more at all mayest thou find them.
15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by Her, far off shall stand because of the fear of her torment, weeping, and sorrowing,

next post will be on stripes, lashing and scourging

LittleLambofJesus · Jun 25, 2018

This is an interesting Greek word.

4127. plege play-gay' from 4141; a stroke; by implication, a wound; figuratively, a calamity:--plague, stripe, wound(-ed).

For now, I am going to put up all the verses that use #G4127.
It is used only in 6 verses outside of Revelation. 2 each in Luke, 2 each in Acts and 2 Corinthians

Luk 10:30
And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded G4127 him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Luk 12:48
But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, G4127 shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Act 16:23
And when they had laid many stripes G4127 upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
Act 16:33
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; G4127 and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
2Co 6:5
In stripes, G4127 in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
2Co 11:23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool ) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes G4127 above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

This is where and how it is used in the Book of Revelation:
I will put verses in a quote so as not to make the thread so long.
Just click "expand"

Rev 9:20
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues G4127 yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Rev 11:6
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, G4127 as often as they will.
Rev 13:3
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound G4127 was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Rev 13:12
And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound G4127 was healed.
Rev 13:14
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound G4127 by a sword, and did live.
Rev 15:1
And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; G4127 for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
Rev 15:6
And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, G4127 clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
Rev 15:8
And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues G4127 of the seven angels were fulfilled.
Rev 16:9
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: G4127 and they repented not to give him glory.
Rev 16:21
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague G4127 of the hail; for the plague G4127 thereof was exceeding great.
Rev 18:4
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. G4127
Rev 18:8
Therefore shall her plagues G4127 come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Rev 21:9
And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, G4127 and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
Rev 22:18
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues G4127 that are written in this book

Continued in next post.....................

LittleLambofJesus · Jun 27, 2018

LittleLambofJesus said:
This is an interesting Greek word.

4127. plege play-gay' from 4141; a stroke; by implication, a wound; figuratively, a calamity:--plague, stripe, wound(-ed).

Strong's Number G4127 matches the Greek πληγή (plēgē),
which occurs 21 times in 20 verses.

Luke is the only Gospel that uses this greek word #G4127
Luke 10:38, Luke 12:48

I will put up Luke 12:48 first [the next post, I will put up Luke 10]

The exact word form of the greek word #G4127 used in Luke 12:48 is used only 5 times, 3 of those in Revelation.

The exact word form of #G4127 used in Luke 12:48 occurs 5 times, 3 of those in Revelation

Luke 12:
48 and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes/blow/splhgwn πληγῶν<4127> shall be beaten with few;
and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him;
and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

Acts 16:
33 and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe [them] from the stripes/blows/plhgwn πληγῶν<4127>,
and was baptized, himself and all his presently,

Reve 9:
18 A third of mankind was killed by these three stripes/blows/plhgwn πληγῶν<4127>,
by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.

Reve 18:
4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people,
so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her stripes/blows/plhgwn πληγῶν<4127>

Reve 21:
9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last stripes/blows/plhgwn πληγῶν<4127> came and spoke with me, saying,
“Come! I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

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