John 2:13-22

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

13 1The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus 2went up to Jerusalem.
14 3In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.
15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.
16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away; do not make 4my Father's house a house of trade."
17 His disciples remembered that it was written, 5"Zeal for your house will consume me."
18 So the Jews said to him, 6"What sign do you show us for doing these things?"
19 Jesus answered them, 7"Destroy this temple, and in three days 8I will raise it up."
20 The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"
21 But he was speaking about 9the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, 10his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed 11the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

Cross References 11

  • 1. John 11:55; See John 6:4
  • 2. ver. 23; Deuteronomy 16:1-6; Luke 2:41
  • 3. For ver. 14-17, [Matthew 21:12, 13; Mark 11:15-17; Luke 19:45, 46, with Malachi 3:1-3]
  • 4. [John 14:2; Luke 2:49]
  • 5. Cited from Psalms 69:9
  • 6. John 4:48; John 6:30; [Exodus 4:1, 8; Exodus 7:9]; See Matthew 12:38
  • 7. [Matthew 26:61; Matthew 27:40; Mark 14:58; Mark 15:29]
  • 8. John 10:18
  • 9. [John 1:14; 1 Corinthians 6:19; Colossians 2:9]
  • 10. John 12:16; Luke 24:8
  • 11. John 20:9; Psalms 16:10
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