For it is written in the law of Moses, &#8220;<b><i>Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the graini>b>.&#8221;<n id="1" /> God is not concerned here about oxen, is he?

<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">He found in the temple courts<n id="2" /> those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.<n id="3" />

For the scripture says, &#8220;<b><i>Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the graini>b>,&#8221;<n id="1" /> and, &#8220;The worker deserves his pay.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Then<n id="1" /> he said to them, &#8220;Which of you, if you have a son<n id="2" /> or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?&#8221;

Another<n id="1" /> said, &#8216;I have bought five yoke of oxen,<n id="2" /> and I am going out<n id="3" /> to examine them. Please excuse me.&#8217;

Then the Lord answered him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall,<n id="2" /> and lead it to water?<n id="3" />

So he made a whip of cords<n id="1" /> and drove them all out of the temple courts,<n id="2" /> with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers<n id="3" /> and overturned their tables.