according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they were wondering at his delay in the temple.

And when he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them and remained mute.

Jesus Presented at the Temple

And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law,

and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

The Boy Jesus in the Temple

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold,

And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him,

The Authority of Jesus Challenged

One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up

Jesus Foretells Destruction of the Temple

And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said,

And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet.

And early in the morning all the people came to him in the temple to hear him.

Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders, who had come out against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

while the sun's light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.

and were continually in the temple blessing God.