March 3, 2024 – Third Sunday of Lent

From the Gospel according to John (2, 23 – 25)

The Passover of the Jews was approaching and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple people selling oxen, sheep and doves and, sitting there, the money changers. Then he made a whip of cords and drove everyone out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; he threw the money changers’ money to the ground and overturned their benches, and to the dove sellers he said: “Take these things away from here and do not make my Father’s house a market!”. His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will devour me.”
Then the Jews spoke up and said to him: “What sign do you show us to do these things?”. Jesus answered them: “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it again.” The Jews then said to him, “This temple took forty-six years to build, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he spoke of the temple of his body.
Then when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word spoken by Jesus.
While he was in Jerusalem for the Passover, during the feast, many, seeing the signs that he performed, believed in his name. But he, Jesus, did not trust them, because he knew everyone and did not need anyone to give testimony about man. In fact, he knew what is in man.

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