John 2:13-25 - Jesus Throws Merchants And Moneychangers Out Of The Temple Courtyard

¹³ And the passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And he found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sit ting. ¹⁵ And when he had made a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also, and the oxen, and he poured out the money of the money-changers, and overthrew their tables; ¹⁶ and said to those who sold doves: Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.

¹⁷ And his disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for thy house has eaten me up.

¹⁸ Then answered the Jews and said to him: What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?

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

²⁰ Then the Jews said to him: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you rebuild it in three days?

²¹ But he spoke of the temple of his body. ²² "When, therefore, he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. And they believed the scripture, and the word that Jesus had spoken.

²³ And while he was in Jerusalem, during the feast of passover, many believed on his name, because they saw the signs that he did. ²⁴ But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men, ²⁵ and had no need that any one should testify of man, for he himself knew what was in man.