13 And the passover[c] of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to 14 Jerusalem. And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and 15 sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: and he made a scourge of cords, and cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew 16 their tables; and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise. 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine 18 house shall eat me up [_see Ps. 69:9_]. The Jews therefore answered and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing 19 thou doest these things? Jesus answered and said unto them, 20 Destroy this [1]temple, and in three days I will raise it up. The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this [1]temple in 21 building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? But he spake of 22 the [1]temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he spake this; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. [Footnote 1: Or, _sanctuary_.] [Footnote a: Many scholars consider this the same incident as that in the Synoptic Gospels and placed by them in Passion Week (§ 129) probably on Monday. It is urged that Jesus would not have repeated such an act and hence one must follow either the order of John or of the Synoptics. But there is no inherent difficulty in the repetition of such an act when one reflects on the natural indignation of Jesus at the desecration of the temple on his visit during his ministry and considers that Jesus may have wished to make one last protest at the close of his ministry. Certainty, of course, is not possible in such an argument one way or the other.] [Footnote b: Observe the successive _scenes_ of this early ministry--beside the Jordan, on the eastern side, at Cana of Galilee, at Capernaum, at Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria.] [Footnote c: This is the first of the passovers in John's Gospel (2:13; 6:4; 13:1). There may have been another.] § 32. THE INTERVIEW OF NICODEMUS WITH JESUS At Jerusalem during the Passover John 2:23 to 3:21