¹²After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and shis brothers2 and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

¹³tThe Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus uwent up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴vIn the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. ¹⁵And 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. ¹⁶And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make wmy Father's house a house of trade.” ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, x“Zeal for your house will consume me.”

¹⁸So the Jews said to him, y“What sign do you show us for doing these things?” ¹⁹Jesus answered them, z“Destroy this temple, and in three days aI will raise it up.” ²⁰The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,3 and will you raise it up in three days?” ²¹But he was speaking about bthe temple of his body. ²²When therefore he was raised from the dead, chis disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed dthe Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

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