Jesus whipping the money changers in the temple

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Olympiada
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Jesus whipping the money changers in the temple

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Dear Discussion Forum,
I am asking around in different forums for the answers to these questions. I read somewhere by somebody that Jesus had actually whipped the moneychangers in the temple. I don't recall reading this in the Scriptures. Does anyone know what version of the Scriptures this is written in and how explicit the original Greek was? I want to make an icon of this scene if one does not exist already so all the details you can supply will help.
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In the Holy Gospel according to St. John, Chapter 2 [KJV]:

14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
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;
16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

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Scourge not whip

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Right, that's why I couldn't find it. Thanks. I found out this giving of stripes goes all the way back to Deuteronomy. Interesting.

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