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November 17, 1985
When Jesus confronted the dishonesty of merchants in the temple courts, they responded by defying His authority rather than acknowledging their sin. Alistair Begg challenges us to consider whether we react the same way when there is sin that must be dealt with. We all have consciences in need of the conviction and forgiveness that only Christ can provide.
12After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and shis brothers2 and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.
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.
23Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name ewhen they saw the signs that he was doing. 24But Jesus fon his part did not entrust himself to them, because ghe knew all people 25and needed no one to bear witness about man, for ghe himself knew what was in man.
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