The Cleansing Of The Temple

The Gospel Of John

13 And the Jewish passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 In the temple he found merchants selling cattle, sheep and doves for sacrifices. He saw dealers sitting at tables exchanging money and roman currency.

15 Jesus made a whip out of cords, and drove all the merchants out from the Temple. He freed the sheep and cattle, scattered the money changers’ coins across the floor, and overturned their tables.

16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here. Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!”

17 Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: “Concern for God’s house will be my undoing.”

18 and the Jewish leaders demanded, “What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it!”

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

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 Jesus had spoken of was the flesh and the bones of his body. 22 and when he was resurrected after his crucifixion, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

- JOHN 2: 13-22

The Gospel of Matthew

12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those that sold doves,

13 And he said unto them “It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers!”

- Matthew 21:12-13