Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the highest point of the temple,

Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, "Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn't he?"

Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them.

But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became indignant

Now after Jesus entered the temple courts, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.'

Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?

And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and the one who dwells in it.

so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings.

At that moment Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me.

and declared, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.'"

So Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.

The chief priests took the silver and said, "It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money."

and saying, "You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the cross!"

Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

Then Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. And after looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the twelve since it was already late.

Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,

and he would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.

They came again to Jerusalem. While Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the elders came up to him

While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he said, "How is it that the experts in the law say that the Christ is David's son?

Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, look at these tremendous stones and buildings!"

So while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

Day after day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me. But this has happened so that the scriptures would be fulfilled."

"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.'"

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

And the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom.

So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Then the devil brought him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the highest point of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there,

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

Now one day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the experts in the law with the elders came up

Now while some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said,

So every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but at night he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives.

And all the people came to him early in the morning to listen to him in the temple courts.

He went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he might betray Jesus, handing him over to them.

Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out to get him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?

Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not arrest me. But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness!"

because the sun's light failed. The temple curtain was torn in two.

and were continually in the temple courts blessing God.

He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.

So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

Jesus replied, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again."

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?"

But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well. Don't sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you."

When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon's Portico.

Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, "What do you think? That he won't come to the feast?"

Jesus replied, "I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple courts, where all the Jewish people assemble together. I have said nothing in secret.

Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o'clock in the afternoon.

And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called "the Beautiful Gate" every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts.

When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he asked them for money.

He jumped up, stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

and they recognized him as the man who used to sit and ask for donations at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with astonishment and amazement at what had happened to him.

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

"Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life."

When they heard this, they entered the temple courts at daybreak and began teaching. Now when the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin -- that is, the whole high council of the Israelites -- and sent to the jail to have the apostles brought before them.

Now when the commander of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this report, they were greatly puzzled concerning it, wondering what this could be.

But someone came and reported to them, "Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the temple courts and teaching the people!"

Then the commander of the temple guard went with the officers and brought the apostles without the use of force (for they were afraid of being stoned by the people).

And every day both in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus was the Christ.

The priest of the temple of Zeus, located just outside the city, brought bulls and garlands to the city gates; he and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices to them.

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

There is danger not only that this business of ours will come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be regarded as nothing, and she whom all the province of Asia and the world worship will suffer the loss of her greatness."

After the city secretary quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from heaven?

For you have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.

Then Paul took the men the next day, and after he had purified himself along with them, he went to the temple and gave notice of the completion of the days of purification, when the sacrifice would be offered for each of them.

When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from the province of Asia who had seen him in the temple area stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!"

(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut.

When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance

He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we arrested him.

They did not find me arguing with anyone or stirring up a crowd in the temple courts or in the synagogues or throughout the city,

which I was doing when they found me in the temple, ritually purified, without a crowd or a disturbance.

Paul said in his defense, "I have committed no offense against the Jewish law or against the temple or against Caesar."

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.

You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?

If someone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, which is what you are.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience be "strengthened" to eat food offered to idols?

Don't you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?

And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."

In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God's temple, displaying himself as God.

The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), and my new name as well.