A Miraculous Sign (John 2:12-22)

 

Jesus Clears the Temple

 ¹²After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.

 ¹³When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. ¹⁵So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!”

 ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”^[a]

 ¹⁸Then the Jews demanded of him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”

 ¹⁹Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”

 ²⁰The Jews replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” ²¹But the temple he had spoken of was his body. ²²After 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.