John 2:13-25

¹³Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴He found sellers of oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers were sitting there.

¹⁵So he made a whip of cords and drove all of them out from the temple, including both the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overthrew their tables.

¹⁶To the pigeon sellers he said, “Take these things away from here. Stop making the house of my Father a marketplace.”

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

¹⁸Then the Jewish authorities responded and said to him, “What sign will you show us, since you are doing these things?”

¹⁹Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

²⁰Then the Jewish authorities said, “This temple was built in forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”

²¹However, he was speaking about the temple of his body.

²²After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the scripture and this statement that Jesus had spoken.

²³Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover festival, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he did.

²⁴But Jesus did not trust in them because he knew them all,

²⁵because he did not need anyone to testify to him about man, for he knew what was in man.