Passage Viewer

As the Passover of the Jews was approaching, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

In the temple courtyard, he saw merchants selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and moneychangers seated at their tables.

Making a whip out of cords, he drove them all out of the temple courtyard, along with the oxen and sheep. He knocked over the tables of the moneychangers, scattering the coins

and then ordered the people selling doves: “Take all this away and stop making a marketplace of my Father’s house!”

His disciples remembered the words of Scripture: Zeal for your house consumes me like fire.

The Jews then questioned Jesus:

“What sign can you show us for doing this?”

Jesus answered them:

“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”

The Jews then replied:

“The building of this temple has already taken forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?”

But he was speaking of the temple of his body.

It was only after he had risen from the dead that his disciples remembered these words; then they believed both the scripture and the words Jesus had spoken.