John 2:12-22 | The Money-Changers

¹² After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days. ¹³ The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. ¹⁵ 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. ¹⁶ And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” ¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.” ¹⁸ So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” ¹⁹ Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” ²⁰ The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” ²¹ But he was speaking about the temple of his body. ²² 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.

Reminder:

The purpose of John’s Gospel is that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name ( John 20:31).

 Considerations:

Is this the same event found in Matthew, Mark and Luke?

• This is at the beginning of rather than the end of his ministry as found in the other gospel’s accounts.
• He refers to the temple becoming a “house of trade” rather than a “den of robbers”(Matthew 21:13).

The situation:

The temple had been turned into a market place.

¹⁶ And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”