John 2:13-22

International Standard Version

Confrontation in the Temple over Money^(A)

¹³ The Jewish Passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables. ¹⁵ After making a whip out of cords, he drove all of them out of the Temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the moneychangers and knocked over their tables.

¹⁶ Then he told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!” ¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”^[a]

¹⁸ Then the Jewish leaders^[b] asked him, “What sign can you show us as authority for doing these things?”

¹⁹ Jesus answered them, “Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will rebuild it.”

²⁰ The Jewish leaders^[c] said, “This sanctuary has been under construction for 46 years, and you’re going to rebuild it in three days?” ²¹ But the sanctuary he was speaking about was his own body. ²² After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.^[d]