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12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they were there not more than two or three days.
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After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.
13 The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 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:
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In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
15 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;
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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.
16 And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.
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To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!”
17 And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.
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His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
18 Then the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give us, seeing that you do these things?
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The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
19 And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.
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Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!
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They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?”
21 But his words were about that holy building which was his body.
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But the temple he had spoken of was his body.
22 So when he had come back again from the dead, the memory of these words came back to the disciples, and they had faith in the holy Writings and in the word which Jesus had said.
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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.
23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, a great number of people came to have faith in his name, after seeing the signs which he did.
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Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.
24 But Jesus did not have faith in them, because he had knowledge of them all.
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But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people.
25 He had no need for any witness about man; for he himself had knowledge of what was in man.
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He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.
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