John 2:13–25

Jesus Clears the Temple Courts

2:14–16pp—Mt 21:12,13; Mk 11:15–17; Lk 19:45,46

¹³When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,^j Jesus went up to Jerusalem.^{k 14}In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves,^l and others sitting at tables exchanging money.^{m 15}So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s houseⁿ into a market!” ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”^co

¹⁸The Jews^p then responded to him, “What sign^q can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”^r

¹⁹Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”^s

²⁰They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” ²¹But the temple he had spoken of was his body.^{t 22}After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said.^u Then they believed the scripture^v and the words that Jesus had spoken.

²³Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival,^w many people saw the signs^x he was performing and believed^y in his name.^{d 24}But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. ²⁵He did not need any testimony about mankind,^z for he knew what was in each person.^a