¹² After this He went down to ^(A)Capernaum, He, His mother, ^(B)His brothers, and His disciples; and they did not stay there many days.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple^(C)

^13 (D)Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ^14 (E)And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers ^[a]doing business. ¹⁵ When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. ¹⁶ And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make ^(F)My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” ¹⁷ Then His disciples remembered that it was written, ^(G)“Zeal for Your house ^[b]has eaten Me up.”

¹⁸ So the Jews answered and said to Him, ^(H)“What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?”

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, ^(I)“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

²⁰ Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”

²¹ But He was speaking ^(J)of the temple of His body. ²² Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, ^(K)His disciples remembered that He had said this ^[c]to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

The Discerner of Hearts

²³ Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the ^(L)signs which He did. ²⁴ But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He ^(M)knew all men, ²⁵ and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for ^(N)He knew what was in man.

^13 (A)No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man ^[a]who is in heaven. ^14 (B)And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so ^(C)must the Son of Man be lifted up, ¹⁵ that whoever ^(D)believes in Him should ^[b]not perish but ^(E)have eternal life. ^16 (F)For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten ^(G)Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ^17 (H)For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

^18 (I)“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, ^(J)that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For ^(K)everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. ²¹ But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been ^(L)done in God.”