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G5416 names a whip or scourge and occurs once, in John 2:15. Jesus makes a whip of cords in the temple scene, pours out coins, overturns tables, and drives out the sheep and oxen. The sentence's grammar and the wider scene must determine how the instrument relates to people and animals; the noun alone does not prove whom Jesus struck. John governs interpretation through the enacted sign, the temple setting, Jesus' own words, and the disciples' later remembrance.

The episode must not become permission for religious violence, corporal punishment, coercive control, retaliation, property destruction, or impulsive anger. Teachers should preserve the scene's force while refusing to transfer Jesus' unique authority to leaders, parents, spouses, institutions, or crowds.

G5416 keeps John 2 concrete: Jesus makes a corded whip and acts publicly in the temple courts. Yet the noun does not settle every disputed detail of the scene, including whether the whip contacts people. John frames the action through Jesus' words about his Father's house and the disciples' later remembrance. Preaching should preserve the seriousness of the sign without offering cover for religious violence, abuse, punitive parenting, intimidation, or vigilantism.