In the Temple Courts he found people who were selling bullocks, sheep, and pigeons, and the money-changers at their counters.

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,

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

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

But Jesus was speaking of his body as a temple.

Afterwards Jesus found the man in the Temple Courts, and said to him: "You are cured now; do not sin again, for fear that something worse may befall you."

About the middle of the Festival week, Jesus went up into the Temple Courts, and began teaching.

Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said: "Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.

These statements Jesus made in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple Courts. Yet no one arrested him, for his time had not then come.

At this they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and left the Temple Courts.

It was winter; and Jesus was walking in the Temple Courts, in the Colonnade of Solomon,

So they looked for Jesus there, and said to one another, as they stood in the Temple Courts: "What do you think? Do you think he will come to the Festival?"

"For my part," answered Jesus, "I have spoken to all the world openly. I always taught in some Synagogue, or in the Temple Courts, places where all the Jews assemble, and I never spoke of anything in secret.