John 2:14-24

¹⁴And in the Temple He found people selling oxen and sheep and doves, also the moneychangers at work.

¹⁵When He had made a scourge out of cords, He drove all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and as for the moneychangers, He overturned the tables and scattered the coins.

¹⁶And to the dove-sellers He said: “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father's House into a marketplace!”

¹⁷Then His disciples remembered that it stands written, “Zeal for Your House consumes me.”

¹⁸So the Jews answered and said to Him, “What sign do you show us, since you do these things?”

¹⁹Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it.”

²⁰So the Jews said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and you will raise it in three days?!”

²¹But He was speaking about the temple of His body.

²²Therefore, when He was raised from among the dead His disciples remembered that He had said this; so they believed the Scripture, even the word that Jesus had spoken.

²³Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed into His name, observing the signs that He was doing.

²⁴But as for Jesus Himself, He did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all men