NARRATOR 1: The Jewish Passover was near. Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and money changers sitting at tables.
NARRATOR 2: Jesus made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple—sheep, oxen, money changers. He poured out their money and overturned their tables. He spoke to those selling doves.
JESUS: Take these doves out of here. Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.
DISCIPLE: This is like the scripture says, “Zeal for your house consumes me.”
OFFICIAL 1: What sign can you show us authorizing you to do these things?
JESUS: Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.
OFFICIAL 2: It has taken 46 years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it up in three days?
NARRATOR 1: Jesus was talking about the temple of his body. When he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this to them, and they came to understand the scripture and the words Jesus had said.
NARRATOR 2: While Jesus was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many came to believe in his name, for they saw the signs he did.
NARRATOR 1: For his part Jesus would not entrust himself to them because he knew them all.
NARRATOR 2: Jesus needed no one to give testimony about human nature. He knew what was in the human heart.
John 2.13-25