John 2:13-22

Christian Standard Bible

Cleansing the Temple

¹³ The Jewish Passover^(A) was near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.^{(B) 14} In the temple^(C) he found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and he also found the money changers sitting there. ¹⁵ After making a whip out of cords,^(D) he drove everyone out of the temple with their sheep^(E) and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables. ¹⁶ He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s^(F) house^(G) into a marketplace!”^[a](H)

¹⁷ And his disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal^(I) for your house will consume^(J) me.^[b](K)

¹⁸ So the Jews replied to him, “What sign will you show us for doing these things?”

¹⁹ Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple,^[c](L) and I will raise it up in three days.”^(M)

²⁰ Therefore the Jews said, “This temple took forty-six years to build,^[d] and will you raise it up in three days?” ^(N)

²¹ But he was speaking about the temple of his body.^{(O) 22} So when he was raised from the dead,^(P) his disciples remembered that he had said this,^(Q) and they believed the Scripture^(R) and the statement Jesus had made.