Mark 11:16
And He would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.
BSB
ASV
and he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple.
KJV
And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
(ubi sup.) He speaks of those vessels which were carried there for the purpose of merchandise.
The Jews owned that it was one of the instances of honour due to the temple, not to make the mountain of the house, or the court of the Gentiles, a road, or common passage, or to come into it with any bundle. He gave a good reason for this; because it was written, My house shall be called of all nations, The house of prayer,
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
