Mark 11 · Verse 16

Mark 11:16

And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
Mark 11:16, King James Version

Mark 11:16 in other translations

BSBAnd He would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.
WEBHe would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple.
ASVand he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple.
YLTand he did not suffer that any might bear a vessel through the temple,
DARBYand suffered not that any one should carry any package through the temple.
BBEAnd he would not let any man take a vessel through the Temple.
WebsterAnd would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.

What does Mark 11:16 mean?

Barnes' Notes
Verse 16. Any vessel. Any vessel used in cooking, or connected with the sale of their articles or merchandise.

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 Should carry any vessel - Among the Jews the word כלי keli, vessel, had a vast latitude of meaning; it signified arms, Jer 21:4; Eze 9:1; clothes, Deu 22:5, and instruments of music, Psa 71:22. It is likely that the evangelist uses the Greek word σκευος in the same sense, and by it points out any of the things which were bought and sold in the temple.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 11:12-18

Christ looked to find some fruit, for the time of gathering figs, though it was near, was not yet come; but he found none. He made this fig-tree an example, not to the trees, but to the men of that generation. It was a figure of the doom upon the Jewish church, to which he came seeking fruit, but found none. Christ went to the temple, and began to reform the abuses in its courts, to show that when the Redeemer came…

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Mark 11:16 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

καὶkaiAndG2532
οὐκouknotG3756
ἤφιενēphienHe was permitingG863
ἵναinathatG2443
τιςtisanyoneG5100
διενέγκῃdienegkēmay carryG1308
σκεῦοςskeuosa vesselG4632
διὰdiathroughG1223
τοῦtoutheG3588
ἱεροῦ.hi'eroutemple.G2411

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Context

  • Mark 11:15

    And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;

  • Mark 11:16

    And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.

  • Mark 11:17

    And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

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Mark 11:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y no consentía que alguien llevase vaso por el templo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et il ne permettait pas que personne porte aucun vase par le temple.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und er erlaubte nicht, daß jemand ein Gefäß durch den Tempel trug.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et non sinebat ut quisquam transferret vas per templum: