John 2:13–25 · BSB
2:13
When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2:14
In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.
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2:15
So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
2:16
To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
2:17
His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
2:18
On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”
2:19
Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
2:20
“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”
2:21
But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.
2:22
After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
2:23
While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
2:24
But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.
2:25
He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.
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