First Passover and Temple Cleansing

2:13The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2:14He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

2:15He made a whip of cords and drove all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables.

2:16To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

2:17His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

2:18The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”

2:19Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

2:20The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”

2:21But he spoke of the temple of his body.

2:22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

2:23Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

2:24But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,