13. Not long before the Jewish festival of Passover, Jesus went to Jerusalem.
14. There he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves in the temple. He also saw moneychangers sitting at their tables.
15. So he took some rope and made a whip. Then he chased everyone out of the temple, together with their sheep and cattle. He turned over the tables of the moneychangers and scattered their coins.
16. Jesus said to the people who had been selling doves, “Get those doves out of here! Don't make my Father's house a market place.”
17. The disciples then remembered that the Scriptures say, “My love for your house burns in me like a fire.”
18. The Jewish leaders asked Jesus, “What miracle will you perform to show us why you have done this?”
19. “Destroy this temple,” Jesus answered, “and in three days I will build it again!”
20. The leaders replied, “It took forty-six years to build this temple. What makes you think you can rebuild it in three days?”
21. But Jesus was talking about his body as a temple.