So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

Jesus Teaches at the Festival

Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach.

Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,

At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.

He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade.

They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?”

Peter’s First Denial

Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Because this disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard,

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,

Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts.

He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God.

“Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people all about this new life.”

At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they called together the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.

Then someone came and said, “Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people.”

Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.

If, then, Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a grievance against anybody, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. They can press charges.

I was ceremonially clean when they found me in the temple courts doing this. There was no crowd with me, nor was I involved in any disturbance.

After spending eight or ten days with them, Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day he convened the court and ordered that Paul be brought before him.

Paul answered: “I am now standing before Caesar’s court, where I ought to be tried. I have not done any wrong to the Jews, as you yourself know very well.

When they came here with me, I did not delay the case, but convened the court the next day and ordered the man to be brought in.

That is why some Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself.

But instead, one brother takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers!

But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?

But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.