John 2:15
So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
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- Zech 4:6 : 6 Therefore he told me,“This is the LORD’s message to Zerubbabel:‘Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
- John 18:6 : 6 So when Jesus said to them,“I am he,” they retreated and fell to the ground.
- 2 Cor 10:4 : 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, but are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments
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15 Cleansing the Temple Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,
16 and he would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.
17 Then he began to teach them and said,“Is it not written:‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”
18 The chief priests and the experts in the law heard it and they considered how they could assassinate him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.
- John 2:16-172 verses90%
16 To those who sold the doves he said,“Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!”
17 His disciples remembered that it was written,“Zeal for your house will devour me.”
- John 2:13-142 verses90%
13 Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.
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12 Cleansing the Temple Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.
13 And he said to them,“It is written,‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are turning it into a den of robbers!”
14 The blind and lame came to him in the temple courts, and he healed them.
15 But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts,“Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant
- Luke 19:45-462 verses87%
45 Cleansing the Temple Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there,
46 saying to them,“It is written,‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!”
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11 Then Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. And after looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the twelve since it was already late.
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2 Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.
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27 The Authority of Jesus They came again to Jerusalem. While Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the elders came up to him
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23 The Authority of Jesus Now after Jesus entered the temple courts, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said,“By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”
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1 The Triumphal Entry Now when they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,
2 telling them,“Go to the village ahead of you. Right away you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.
3 If anyone says anything to you, you are to say,‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”
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58 “We heard him say,‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.’”
- Mark 11:1-55 verses70%
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2 and said to them,“Go to the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.
3 If anyone says to you,‘Why are you doing this?’ say,‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here soon.’”
4 So they went and found a colt tied at a door, outside in the street, and untied it.
5 Some people standing there said to them,“What are you doing, untying that colt?”
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29 Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying,“Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,
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19 Jesus replied,“Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”
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38 And all the people came to him early in the morning to listen to him in the temple courts.
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8 Many spread their cloaks on the road and others spread branches they had cut in the fields.
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19 After noticing a fig tree by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it,“Never again will there be fruit from you!” And the fig tree withered at once.
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13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to shout,“Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!”
14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,
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14 They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
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8 When the disciples saw this, they became indignant and said,“Why this waste?
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21 But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.
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35 Then they brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt, and had Jesus get on it.
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30 telling them,“Go to the village ahead of you. When you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.
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29 They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.
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13 And he replied,“Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.
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52 Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out to get him,“Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?
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39 So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
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3 But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
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5 The Signs of the End of the Age Now while some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said,
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8 So they seized him, killed him, and threw his body out of the vineyard.
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12 They incited the people, the elders, and the experts in the law; then they approached Stephen, seized him, and brought him before the council.