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¹³The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

¹⁵He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers` money, and overthrew their tables.

¹⁶To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don`t make my Father`s house a marketplace!"

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

¹⁸The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show to us, seeing that you do these things?"

¹⁹Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

²⁰The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?"

²¹But he spoke of the temple of his body.

²²When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.