The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
13 It was almost time for the festival of Pesach in Y'hudah, so Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.
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The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 In the Temple grounds he found those who were selling cattle, sheep and pigeons, and others who were sitting at tables exchanging money.
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And there in the Temple he saw men trading in oxen and sheep and doves, and he saw the changers of money in their seats:
15 He made a whip from cords and drove them all out of the Temple grounds, the sheep and cattle as well. He knocked over the money-changers' tables, scattering their coins;
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And he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers and overturning their tables;
16 and to the pigeon-sellers he said, "Get these things out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market?"
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And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.
17 (His talmidim later recalled that the Tanakh says, "Zeal for your house will devour me." )
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And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.
18 So the Judeans confronted him by asking him, "What miraculous sign can you show us to prove you have the right to do all this?"
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Then the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give us, seeing that you do these things?
19 Yeshua answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again."
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And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.
20 The Judeans said, "It took 46 years to build this Temple, and you're going to raise it in three days?"
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The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!
21 But the "temple" he had spoken of was his body.
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But his words were about that holy building which was his body.
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