¹² After this he went down to Capernaum^(A) with his mother^(B) and brothers^(C) and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.

Jesus Clears the Temple Courts^(D)

¹³ When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,^(E) Jesus went up to Jerusalem.^{(F) 14} In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves,^(G) and others sitting at tables exchanging money.^{(H) 15} So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶ To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house^(I) into a market!” ¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”^[a](J)

¹⁸ The Jews^(K) then responded to him, “What sign^(L) can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”^(M)

¹⁹ Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”^(N)

²⁰ They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” ²¹ But the temple he had spoken of was his body.^{(O) 22} After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said.^(P) Then they believed the scripture^(Q) and the words that Jesus had spoken.