John 2:13-17 ▼

13 Now the Passover of the Jews was approaching, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14 And in the temple [enclosure] He found the people who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at their tables.

15 He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;

16 then to those who sold the doves He said, “Take these things away! Stop making My Father’s house a place of commerce!”

17 His disciples remembered that it is written [in the Scriptures], “ZEAL (love, concern) FOR YOUR HOUSE [and its honor] WILL CONSUME ME.”