'Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.' John 2:13-25

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'Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.' 

John 2:13-25

 

¹³ When the time of the Jewish Passover was near Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

¹⁴ and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting there.

¹⁵ Making a whip out of cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, sheep and cattle as well, scattered the money changers' coins, knocked their tables over

¹⁶ and said to the dove sellers, 'Take all this out of here and stop using my Father's house as a market.'

¹⁷ Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: I am eaten up with zeal for your house.

¹⁸ The Jews intervened and said, 'What sign can you show us that you should act like this?'

¹⁹ Jesus answered, 'Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.'

²⁰ The Jews replied, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple: are you going to raise it up again in three days?'

²¹ But he was speaking of the Temple that was his body,

²² and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and what he had said.

²³ During his stay in Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he did,

²⁴ but Jesus knew all people and did not trust himself to them;

²⁵ he never needed evidence about anyone; he could tell what someone had within.