Third Sunday in Lent - Gospel Message: John 2:13–22

13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and
doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both
sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and
overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of
here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!”
17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will
consume me.” 18 Then the Jews demanded of him,
“What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all
this?”
 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three
days.” 20 The Jews replied,
“It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to
raise it in three days?”
21But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22 After he was raised from
the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the
Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken. This is the Gospel of our
Lord.