[2:13] It was almost time for the Passover Festival, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
[2:14] There in the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and pigeons, and also the moneychangers sitting at their tables.
[2:15] So he made a whip from cords and drove all the animals out of the Temple, both the sheep and the cattle; he overturned the tables of the moneychangers and scattered their coins;
[2:16] and he ordered those who sold the pigeons, “Take them out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!”
[2:17] His disciples remembered that the scripture says, “My devotion to your house, O God, burns in me like a fire.”
[2:18] The Jewish authorities came back at him with a question, “What miracle can you perform to show us that you have the right to do this?”
[2:19] Jesus answered, “Tear down this Temple, and in three days I will build it again.”
[2:20] “Are you going to build it again in three days?” they asked him. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple!”
[2:21] But the temple Jesus was speaking about was his body.
[2:22] So when he was raised from death, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and what Jesus had said.