The Cleansing of the Temple
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John 2:13-22
John 2:13-22 NIV
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a market!" His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me." The Jews then responded to him, "What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?" Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days." They replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?" But the temple he had spoken of was his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
John 2:13
John 2:13 NIV
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 2:14
John 2:14 NIV
In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
John 2:15-16
John 2:15-16 NIV
So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a market!"
John 2:17
John 2:17 NIV
His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."
Psalm 69:9
Psalm 69:9 NIV
for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.
John 2:18
John 2:18 NIV
The Jews then responded to him, "What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?"
Malachi 3:1-4
Malachi 3:1-4 NIV
"I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come," says the lord Almighty. But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire or a launderer's soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the lord will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness, and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the lord, as in days gone by, as in former years.
John 2:19-22
John 2:19-22 NIV
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days." They replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?" But the temple he had spoken of was his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
Notes
You Were Created for Worship You Have Been Corrupted You Can Be Cleansed
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 NIV
Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for God's temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.
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