John 2:14–22

The Cleansing of the Temple

¹⁴And he found in the temple courts^* those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated. ¹⁵And he made a whip of cords and^* drove them^* all out of the temple courts,^* both the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their^* tables. ¹⁶And to the ones selling the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”^{f 17}His disciples remembered that it is written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”^g

¹⁸So the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these things?” ¹⁹Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!” ²⁰Then the Jews said, “This temple has been under construction^h forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?” ²¹But he was speaking about the temple of his body. ²²So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.