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

¹³ Then, as the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ In the Temple Courts he found people who were selling bullocks, sheep, and pigeons, and the money-changers at their counters. ¹⁵ So he made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the Temple Courts, and the sheep and bullocks as well; he scattered the money of the money-changers, and overturned their tables, ¹⁶ And said to the pigeon-dealers: "Take these things away. Do not turn my Father's House into a market-house."

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that Scripture said--'Zeal for thy House will consume me.'

¹⁸ Upon this the Jews asked Jesus: "What sign are you going to show us, since you act in this way?"

¹⁹ "Destroy this temple," was his answer, "and I will raise it in three days."

²⁰ "This Temple," replied the Jews, "has been forty-six years in building, and are you going to 'raise it in three days'?"

²¹ But Jesus was speaking of his body as a temple. ²² Afterwards, when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the passage of Scripture, and the words which Jesus had spoken.

²³ While Jesus was in Jerusalem, during the Passover Festival, many came to trust in him, when they saw the signs of his mission that he was giving. ²⁴ But Jesus did not trust himself to them, since he could read every heart, ²⁵ And because he did not need that others should tell him what men were; for he could of himself read what was in men.