Jesus Cleanses the Temple

Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy! For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth. He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet. He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah

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John 2:13–22 ESV

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.” So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

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John 2:13 ESV

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Lamb without blemish

14th Day of 10th Month (Nisan) - Late March

sacrifice - between 3pm and 6pm

evening celebration

prayer of thanksgiving, & drinking of first cup of wine

eating of bitter herbs - symbol of bitterness of slavery

son’s enquiry

“why is this night distinguished from all other nights?”

Singing first part of the Hallel (Ps 113-114) & washing of hands

carving and eating the lamb and eat with unleavened bread (bread of haste when leaving Eygpt, & emblem of purity)

Singing of last part of Hallel (Ps 115-118)

7 days of unleavened bread (whole period Passover)

John 2:14 ESV

In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

Court of Gentiles

God had commanded that people bring animals of their choice

Judges would often reject the animals

“Official Traders” would bring approved animals and sell them

“Money Changers” change Roman currency into Jewish to buy animals

House of prayer becomes a Den of Thieves

John 2:15 ESV

And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.

Jesus made a whip from cords of rope

Drove them out of the temple

Poured out the coins and overturned their tables

John 2:16 ESV

And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”

demanded the crates which held pigeons to be removed

“Do not make my Father’s House a house of trade”

John 2:17 ESV

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

reference to David Psalm 69:9

David’s holy zeal for God caused the people to turn against him

Disciples were worried that the people would turn against Jesus

John 2:18 ESV

So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?”

Scribes, Priests & Temple Police

Fullfilled prophesy

Malachi 3:1–3 ESV

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.

Wickedness - should have been ashamed

John 2:19–22 ESV

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up”

Forty six years to build

John explains the true meaning

ministry - 2.5 to 3.5 years

Jesus’ Death & Ressurection

Temple Curtain

John remembers in the upper room when Jesus appears

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Doxology

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