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Scott's Reference Library
John 2:13 through John 2:22 (NIV)
13When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others
sitting at tables exchanging money. 15So he made a whip out of cords, and drove
all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the
money changers and overturned their tables. 16To those who sold doves he said,
“Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!”
17His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume
me.”
18Then the Jews demanded of him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove
your authority to do all this?”
19Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three
days.”
20The Jews replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you
are going to raise it in three days?” 21But the temple he had spoken of was his
body. 22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had
said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 12-22
The first public work in which we find Christ engaged, was driving from the
temple the traders whom the covetous priests and rulers encouraged to make a
market-place of its courts. Those now make God’s house a house of merchandise,
whose minds are filled with cares about worldly business when attending
religious exercises, or who perform Divine offices for love of gain. Christ,
having thus cleansed the temple, gave a sign to those who demanded it, to prove
his authority for so doing. He foretells his death by the Jews’ malice, Destroy
ye this temple; I will permit you to destroy it. He foretells his resurrection
by his own power; In three days I will raise it up. Christ took again his own
life. Men mistake by understanding that according to the letter, which the
Scripture speaks by way of figure. When Jesus was risen from the dead, his
disciples remembered he has said this. It helps much in understanding the Divine
word, to observe the fulfilling of the Scriptures.