John 2:13–25

Christ Cleanses the Temple

^13mNow the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ⁿAnd He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers ²doing business. ¹⁵When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. ¹⁶And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make ^oMy Father’s house a house of merchandise!” ¹⁷Then His disciples remembered that it was written, ^p“Zeal for Your house ³has eaten Me up.”

¹⁸So the Jews answered and said to Him, ^q“What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?”

¹⁹Jesus answered and said to them, ^r“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

²⁰Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

²¹But He was speaking ^sof the temple of His body. ²²Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, ^tHis disciples remembered that He had said this ⁴to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

²³Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the ^usigns which He did. ²⁴But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He ^vknew all men, ²⁵and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for ^wHe knew what was in man.