John 2:13-25 - Jesus Throws Merchants And Moneychangers Out Of The Temple Courtyard
13 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 There he found in the temple those who were selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 So he plaited a scourge of rushes, and drove all out of the temple??oth the sheep and oxen. He began to pour out the coins of the money-changers, and to overturn their tables, 16 and said to those who were selling doves. "Take these things away! Make not my Father's house a house of trade!
17 His disciples recalled that it is written, The zeal of thine house will devour me.
18 Then the Jews asked Jesus, "What sign are you going to show us, seeing that you do these things?"
19 "Destroy this temple," answered Jesus, "and in three days I will raise it up."
20 The Jews retorted, "This Temple took forty-six years to build, and will you 'raise it in three days'?"
21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body; and when the disciples recalled what he had said, 22 after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.
23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many believed in his name, when they beheld the signs which he did; 24 but for his part Jesus was not trusting himself to them, because he knew all men, 25 and did not need any one's testimony concerning man, for he himself knew what was in man.