16. Then, going over to the people who sold doves, he told them, “Get these things out of here. Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!”
17. Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: “Passion for God’s house will consume me.”
18. But 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 in three days I will raise it up.”
20. “What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?”
21. But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own body.
22. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.
23. Because of the miraculous signs Jesus did in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, many began to trust in him.
24. But Jesus didn’t trust them, because he knew all about people.
25. No one needed to tell him about human nature, for he knew what was in each person’s heart.