JESUS IN JERUSALEM


CLEANSING HIS FATHER'S HOUSE.

And the passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep
and doves, and the changers of money sitting: and he made a scourge of
cords, and cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen;
and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables; and
to them that sold the doves he said, "Take these things hence; make
not my Father's house a house of merchandise."

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for thy house
shall eat me up."

The Jews therefore answered and said unto him, "What sign showest thou
unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?"

Jesus answered and said unto them, "Destroy this temple, and in three
days I will raise it up."

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

But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised
from the dead, his disciples remembered that he spake thus; and they
believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.