John 2:13-23

¹³And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

¹⁴and he found in the temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting,

¹⁵and having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,

¹⁶and to those selling the doves he said, 'Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.'

¹⁷And his disciples remembered that it is written, 'The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;'

¹⁸the Jews then answered and said to him, 'What sign dost thou shew to us — that thou dost these things?'

¹⁹Jesus answered and said to them, 'Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'

²⁰The Jews, therefore, said, 'Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'

²¹but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body;

²²when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.

²³And as he was in Jerusalem, in the passover, in the feast, many believed in his name, beholding his signs that he was doing;