Matthew Poole and continuators on John 2:15

15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords , he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers money , and overthrew the tables .

It concerns not us to inquire, where our Saviour had the small cords, of which he made his Whip; there were doubtless, Cords enough at hand, taken off from Beasts brought thither, (tho he was himself in no Franciscan habit (as the Papists idly dream.)

But herein was the mighty Power of God seen, that Christ, a single, private, obscure Person, should without any more noise or opposition, drive out the multitude of these Hucksters, and overturn their Tables. Nor I think (after the consideration of this circumstance need we enquire, By what authority he did this? It was prophecied of him M[illegible: 1 letter]l 3.1. That he should come to his temple; and v. 3. Should sit as a refiner, and purifier of silver: and purifie the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver. Christ here according to that Prophecy, cometh to his Temple, and begins to purge it.

But herein was the mighty Power of God seen, that Christ, a single, private, obscure Person, should without any more noise or opposition, drive out the multitude of these Hucksters, and overturn their Tables. Nor I think (after the consideration of this circumstance need we enquire, By what authority he did this? It was prophecied of him, M[illegible: 1 letter]l 3.1. That he should come to his temple; and v. 3. Should sit as a refiner, and purifier of silver: and purifie the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver. Christ here according to that Prophecy, cometh to his Temple, and begins to purge it.