John 2:12-25

12After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

13Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.

15So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

16To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

17His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”

18So then the Jewish leaders responded, “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?”

19Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”

20Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?”

21But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

22So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

23Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.

24But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.

25He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.