Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
13 It was almost time for the Passover Festival, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
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When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 There in the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and pigeons, and also the moneychangers sitting at their tables.
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In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
15 So he made a whip from cords and drove all the animals out of the Temple, both the sheep and the cattle; he overturned the tables of the moneychangers and scattered their coins;
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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 he ordered those who sold the pigeons, "Take them out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"
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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 His disciples remembered that the scripture says, "My devotion to your house, O God, burns in me like a fire."
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His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
18 The Jewish authorities came back at him with a question, "What miracle can you perform to show us that you have the right to do this?"
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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 Jesus answered, "Tear down this Temple, and in three days I will build it again."
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Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 "Are you going to build it again in three days?" they asked him. "It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple!"
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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 the temple Jesus was speaking about was his body.
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But the temple he had spoken of was his body.
22 So when he was raised from death, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and what 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.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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