Jesus Cleanses the Temple

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It was almost time for the festival of Pesach in Y’hudah, so Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.

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In the Temple grounds he found those who were selling cattle, sheep and pigeons, and others who were sitting at tables exchanging money.

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He made a whip from cords and drove them all out of the Temple grounds, the sheep and cattle as well. He knocked over the money-changers’ tables, scattering their coins;

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and to the pigeon-sellers he said, “Get these things out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market?”

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(His talmidim later recalled that the Tanakh says, “Zeal for your house will devour me.” )

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So the Judeans confronted him by asking him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove you have the right to do all this?”

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Yeshua answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

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The Judeans said, “It took years to build this Temple, and you’re going to raise it in three days?”

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But the “temple” he had spoken of was his body.

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Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his talmidim remembered that he had said this, and they trusted in the Tanakh and in what Yeshua had said.

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