1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,200 Hi everyone. We're continuing to move through 2 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,200 the gospels, looking at the Gospel, reading from the daily 3 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,100 mass. And we're doing a verse by verse 4 00:00:18,100 --> 00:00:21,800 exegesis of the scriptures, really diving in and seem 5 00:00:21,900 --> 00:00:23,800 seeing. If we can work out what the 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,000 original meaning intended by the author was today. 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,900 We're looking at John chapter two verses. 13 to 25. 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,000 Just before the Jewish Passover. Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 9 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,800 And in the temple, he found people selling cattle and sheep 10 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:43,900 and pigeons and the money changers sitting at their 11 00:00:43,900 --> 00:00:46,900 counters. They're making a whip out of 12 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:49,100 some cord. He drove them all out of the 13 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:52,500 temple, cattle and sheep as well scattered. 14 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:56,200 The money changers coins knocked their tables over and said to 15 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,300 the pigeon sellers, take all this out of here and stop 16 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:02,600 turning my father's house into a market. 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,200 Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture Zeal for 18 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:13,000 your house will devour me. The Jews intervened and said 19 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,400 what sign can you show us to justify what you have done? 20 00:01:17,300 --> 00:01:20,400 Jesus answered destroyed this sanctuary. 21 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:23,000 And in three days, I will raise it up. 22 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:28,000 The Jews replied. It is taken 46 years to build 23 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,600 this Sanctuary. Are you going to raise it up in 24 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,600 three days? But he was speaking of the 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,000 sanctuary that was his body. And when Jesus rose from the 26 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this and they 27 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,100 believed the scripture and the words he had said. 28 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,300 During his stay in Jerusalem for the Passover, many believed in 29 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:53,200 his name when they saw the signs that he that he gave. 30 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:57,200 But Jesus knew them all and did not trust himself to them. 31 00:01:57,700 --> 00:02:00,100 He never needed evidence about any man. 32 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,700 He could tell what a man had in him. 33 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:07,900 So a fairly famous passage. Most of us are pretty familiar 34 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:11,600 with Jesus cleansing the temple, but this is John's version of it 35 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,700 and it has a few differences. So as always we want to start by 36 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:18,000 thinking about the context. What has happened just before 37 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,400 this. So Jesus has just done the 38 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,800 Miracle at the wedding in Cana. So it's very early in his 39 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,100 ministry and we have here today Jesus, cleansing the temple. 40 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,900 Now, there's an identical or almost identical. 41 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:33,400 Seen in the synoptic gospels. And in the synoptic gospels, 42 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,300 Matthew, Mark and Luke. The saying of Jesus cleansing. 43 00:02:36,300 --> 00:02:39,400 The temple happens in the last week of Jesus life when he's in 44 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,900 Jerusalem, here in John's version, It's placed right at 45 00:02:42,908 --> 00:02:46,500 the start of Jesus ministry. So, there's a debate among 46 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:49,800 Scholars about whether this is the same incident as what's 47 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,100 recorded in the synoptic gospels. 48 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:55,900 Or did Jesus cleanse the temple twice once at the start of his 49 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:58,500 ministry as we have here in John or? 50 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:02,200 And then once later in the last week of his life and really 51 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,500 Scholars, even conservative orthodox. 52 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:07,700 Was a kind of divided about which option is the best one 53 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:10,200 because there's Arguments for and against each option. 54 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:13,700 So I'll briefly go through the two different views and as 55 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:15,600 Catholics, we are free to accept. 56 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:18,600 Whichever one makes the most sense to us, wherever the let 57 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:20,700 the evidence leads us. We can go with that 58 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:23,200 interpretation. So the first interpretation will 59 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,600 be the Jesus did this twice on two separate occasions. 60 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,400 So in this case, John, is being chronological. 61 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,600 He's really telling us that Jesus cleanse the temple at the 62 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,500 start of his ministry. Now, keep in mind. 63 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:39,300 Mind that John, the Apostle would know because he John the 64 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:42,400 author I should say, would know, because he's one of the 65 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,000 Apostles. So maybe he is trying to convey 66 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:48,000 that Jesus did this early in his ministry as well. 67 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,400 One argument for this would be that the date given for the 68 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,700 temple building, which is later in the passage. 69 00:03:54,700 --> 00:03:58,100 Remember how later in the passage they say it is taken 46 70 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:00,400 years. Well, that date certainly fits 71 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,500 better with this being early. In Jesus ministry. 72 00:04:03,700 --> 00:04:06,200 Not late in his Ministry and we'll talk about that. 73 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:11,200 But the other option would be, that Jesus John knows that Jesus 74 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,100 did this later in his life in the last week of his ministry, 75 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,899 but he's chosen to place it early in his gospel, for 76 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:20,100 theological reasons. Maybe the point, John is trying 77 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:24,200 to make early in his gospel here, is that Jesus is bringing 78 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,900 about a new covenant. That supersedes, the old 79 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:28,600 Covenant. And certainly this story shows 80 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,000 that maybe he wants his readers to hear this story first so that 81 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,400 they're set up theologically for the rest of his gospel. 82 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:36,600 Maybe John is highlighting that. God. 83 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,000 The father is the source of all of Jesus, Authority and Mission. 84 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,900 Maybe his place this scene at the start of his gospel to help 85 00:04:43,900 --> 00:04:46,900 set the scene for all of the future controversies between 86 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:51,800 Jesus and the Jewish leaders. And think about it, if Jesus had 87 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,700 actually done this early in his life. 88 00:04:53,700 --> 00:04:57,300 If he really had cleanse the temple early on, it would have 89 00:04:57,300 --> 00:04:59,900 likely meant the Jewish authorities would have, arrested 90 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:03,300 him straight away and he would not have lasted a further three 91 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:06,900 years. So that will be one argument for 92 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:10,500 considering this to be the same event as lady in his life, but 93 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:13,300 you're free to go with wherever the evidence leads you to. 94 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,100 We get to verse 13 now and it says just before the Jewish 95 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:19,700 Passover, so the Passover occurs. 96 00:05:19,900 --> 00:05:23,300 Every Spring and it commemorates Israel's rescue from Egyptian 97 00:05:23,300 --> 00:05:26,900 slavery and this is an important time marker because in John's 98 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:29,500 gospel, three times. It says Jesus went up to the 99 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:31,400 Passover on three separate years. 100 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,000 So when you add up all these little indicators in the Gospel 101 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,400 of John, it's from this basically that we work out, 102 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,900 Jesus ministry, lasted about three years. 103 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:44,600 So here, this is the first out of the three, so perhaps this is 104 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,900 the first year of Jesus ministry, although, of course, 105 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:49,400 that depends on whether you think it happened that the 106 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,000 cleansing Of the temple happened earlier and later or just later. 107 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:55,400 So he goes up to Jerusalem for the temple. 108 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,300 And in fact, in the Gospel of John, Jesus spends the vast 109 00:05:58,300 --> 00:05:59,900 majority of his time in Jerusalem. 110 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:03,700 It's about 80% of the time, all Jews had to go up to Jerusalem 111 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:07,100 for the Passover, and he's going there From Galilee. 112 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:11,100 So he's moving From Galilee to Jerusalem for the Passover, and 113 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:13,900 he goes to the temple, which is where you'd spend a lot of your 114 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:15,200 time. If you were going up there for 115 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,800 the Passover, right? While you were in Jerusalem, 116 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:19,700 once a year, you would spend quite a bit of time. 117 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,500 The temple. The Temple, of course, is the 118 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:26,200 center of Jewish life. The Jews believe that God, dwelt 119 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,600 in the temple. It was always very busy. 120 00:06:28,900 --> 00:06:33,000 Particularly during Passover. The temple was divided into 121 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,900 various compartments and quarters and the scene we're 122 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:38,900 looking at today occurs in the outer Court sometimes called the 123 00:06:38,900 --> 00:06:42,500 Gentiles Court Gentiles could come into the outer Cordon 124 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:44,600 worship, but they couldn't go into the inner court. 125 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:47,500 So we're in kind of the outside Courtyard, bit of the temple 126 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:50,100 here. Now, because it was the I pass 127 00:06:50,100 --> 00:06:53,200 over the whole area. This whole outer core will be 128 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,900 filled with people and we know from history that there's so 129 00:06:56,900 --> 00:06:59,500 many people that they were only given entrance to the temple in 130 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:03,100 successive waves and here in the outer Court. 131 00:07:03,100 --> 00:07:07,200 We find people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons. 132 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:10,100 Now, this was actually a required Market. 133 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:13,000 You did need people to sell these animals because part of 134 00:07:13,008 --> 00:07:15,900 the Jewish law require people to sacrifice these animals. 135 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,500 Some people particularly those who are traveling were unable to 136 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:21,400 acquire. By their own animals to 137 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,400 sacrifice before coming to the temple. 138 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:26,200 So they actually needed people to provide them with cattle and 139 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,100 sheep and pigeons. And during Passover, in 140 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:32,300 particular, a pilgrim, would present a lamb to be sacrificed. 141 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,200 And then often there were these other animals involved in the 142 00:07:35,207 --> 00:07:38,800 sacrifices to. So it makes sense that they 143 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,500 would have markets to sell these animals, because if you're a 144 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:44,400 faithful Jew you need access to these animals before you go into 145 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,000 the temple. We also have here Money Changes 146 00:07:48,300 --> 00:07:50,700 sitting at their counters or At their business. 147 00:07:51,900 --> 00:07:54,300 Now, what's going on here? Well, in order for a do to pay 148 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:56,300 the temple tax, which was required. 149 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,600 They needed to use a certain type of currency. 150 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:03,300 They needed Jewish currency, but most people in this culture use 151 00:08:03,300 --> 00:08:06,000 different currencies in their daily life, they'll use Greek or 152 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,600 Roman currencies and those currencies carried the images of 153 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,500 foreign Kings and there were considered to be Blasphemous. 154 00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:16,100 So you weren't allowed to put Roman or Greek coins into the 155 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:18,800 Jewish temple collection area. That was not allowed. 156 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,500 It was considered Judges, so again, you would have to go and 157 00:08:22,900 --> 00:08:27,800 transfer your Gentile currency for the Jewish currency before, 158 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,800 you can pay the temple tax. So, that's why you needed people 159 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,400 at the money changing tables. Now, it's likely, though, even 160 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,299 if this ministry was necessary, probably, the people there were 161 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:39,299 taking more money than what was required. 162 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:41,000 There were probably extorting people. 163 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:45,700 The issue Jesus has your is not the fact that they are doing 164 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:47,900 these things that they are selling animals. 165 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:49,800 All that they're doing money, changing that was actually 166 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:53,300 fairly necessary. The issue he has, is where 167 00:08:53,300 --> 00:08:55,400 they're doing it. It's happening in the temple out 168 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:57,400 of court. That's supposed to be where the 169 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,800 Gentiles can come and pray and worship. 170 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:03,500 But people had set up their stalls in the area, which was 171 00:09:03,500 --> 00:09:07,200 supposed to be for worship. So, Jesus gets very angry and he 172 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,400 says things like stop turning my father's house into a market, 173 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:12,900 probably the people. There were also inflating the 174 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:17,200 process and making money off it. So verse 15, making a whip out 175 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,000 of some Accord. He drove them all out of the 176 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,900 temple, cattle and sheep as well. 177 00:09:22,700 --> 00:09:24,900 So Jesus literally makes a whip here. 178 00:09:25,300 --> 00:09:27,500 This is the angriest. We see him in any of the 179 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:30,200 gospels. Now, what's his intention? 180 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:31,800 Here he is. Intention is not to make a 181 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,300 public scene really, what he's trying to do is just to get the 182 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:38,300 merchants out of the temple. So that others can come back in 183 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:40,600 and worship. He wants to clear out the people 184 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,500 who shouldn't be in that part of the temple so that people can 185 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:46,400 come in and worship. That's his main goal here and he 186 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,800 works out the best way to do it is to get the Whip and to 187 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,400 physically get them out. That's how passionate he is 188 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,300 about it. And it actually says in verse 189 00:09:54,300 --> 00:09:57,700 15, he scattered the money changers coins knocking their 190 00:09:57,700 --> 00:10:00,000 tables over. Now what it actually says is he 191 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,600 poured out? Out the coins of the 192 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,200 moneychangers, so we can imagine him going over to the money 193 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:07,500 tables, and literally turning over the tables to get rid of 194 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:11,100 the money to get them out of that area verse 16. 195 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:14,600 He knocked their tables over and said to the pigeon sellers, take 196 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,000 all this out of here and stop turning my father's house into a 197 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,000 market or some translations have that as you shall not make my 198 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,500 father's house, a house of trade. 199 00:10:24,900 --> 00:10:27,800 This is Jesus concern. He wants people to be able to 200 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,500 access God in the temple unencumbered by these. 201 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,100 Market stalls, there's probably an illusion here to Zechariah 14 202 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:37,900 verse 21, which says no longer. Will. 203 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:41,200 They be margins in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day 204 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:43,600 and in context? That's a prophecy about the 205 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,900 coming reign of God. Now only John's version of this 206 00:10:47,900 --> 00:10:50,900 highlights the phrase, my father's house in the synoptic 207 00:10:50,900 --> 00:10:53,200 gospels that says. You cannot make my father's 208 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,700 house a den of Thieves and that's a reference to the Old 209 00:10:56,700 --> 00:11:00,000 Testament in itself. But here the focus is on my 210 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 father's house. Only John has that phrase, John 211 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,000 is probably trying to highlight the relationship. 212 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,500 The deep relationship between Jesus and the father. 213 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:11,900 So he's giving us an insight into that deep relationship. 214 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:15,000 That would make sense because a son could act on behalf of his 215 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,600 father in that culture. So the fact that Jesus does 216 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,800 these acts and he says, this is my father's house. 217 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,800 Well, it gives his acts and legitimacy because he's doing it 218 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,600 on behalf of his father, his aggression, here in the temple, 219 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,100 probably foreshadows the temple destruction, which does come 40 220 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:34,100 years later. And the expulsion of the animals 221 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,700 might be a Prophecies of the sacrifices would soon stop 222 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:41,800 because indeed, in 70 AD God caused the temple sacrifices to 223 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,300 stop. So maybe all of this is 224 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:47,600 foreshadowing that verse 17 his Remember the words of scripture? 225 00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:51,400 Now, John would know that the disciples remembered the words 226 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,300 of scripture because he was one of the disciples who was there 227 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:57,100 at the time. So apparently at the time, they 228 00:11:57,100 --> 00:12:00,700 remembered these words from the Old Testament Zeal for your 229 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:03,800 house, will devour me. Now that's taken straight from 230 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,300 Psalm 69 verse 10. And in context, that Psalm is 231 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:11,100 about the righteous servant who will suffer servants, who are 232 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:14,400 suffering because of the insults, the Sinners make to 233 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,000 God. Now, interestingly. 234 00:12:16,100 --> 00:12:18,600 Fittingly in the original texture of the psalm. 235 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:22,200 If you look at the sum in in Greek, it's actually in the past 236 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,500 tense. Zeal for your house, has 237 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:27,700 consumed me but here John has it. 238 00:12:27,700 --> 00:12:31,100 As Zeal for your house, will consume me, which is not in the 239 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:33,500 Old Testament, manuscripts some Scholars. 240 00:12:33,500 --> 00:12:37,300 Think that John changes it to the future tense, maybe because 241 00:12:37,300 --> 00:12:39,800 he believes that the Zeal for his father. 242 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,100 That the Zeal that Jesus has for his father is one of the key 243 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:47,000 reasons why he's crucified. So when he says, Your Zeal for 244 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,900 your house will devour me. John is anticipating that the 245 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:52,700 Zeal will be consummated on the cross. 246 00:12:52,700 --> 00:12:55,500 It's not yet finished. So that's an interesting Theory, 247 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,500 Verse 18, the Jews intervened. Now, we need to keep in mind 248 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:02,600 when John the Gospel of John uses the word, the Jews. 249 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:04,900 It means that you wish leaders and the catechism actually 250 00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:08,800 discusses that So the Jewish leaders say, what sign can you 251 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,300 show us to justify what you have done? 252 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,000 So the Jewish leaders are all about signs. 253 00:13:15,500 --> 00:13:18,300 They say, if Jesus was going to overturn the tables in the 254 00:13:18,300 --> 00:13:21,000 temple, and that's an incredibly radical act. 255 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,700 Actually they say if you're going to do that, Jesus, you 256 00:13:23,700 --> 00:13:26,900 need to have authority from God. So you need to prove that you 257 00:13:26,900 --> 00:13:30,100 have authority from God by performing a sign that kind of 258 00:13:30,100 --> 00:13:32,700 reasoning makes sense. Because in order to clear out 259 00:13:32,700 --> 00:13:35,700 the temple in order for that to be legitimate, you would have to 260 00:13:35,700 --> 00:13:38,100 have some fairly Strong Authority from God and they want 261 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:41,200 proof of that. So in verse 9, Jesus response, 262 00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:45,100 destroyed this sanctuary. And in three days, I will raise 263 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:47,200 it up another word for Sanctuary. 264 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,400 There is Temple, destroy this Temple. 265 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,500 And in three days, I will raise it up. 266 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,400 So this is a prophecy and this is the sign that Jesus promises. 267 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:57,900 They say, give us a sign to prove that you're from God. 268 00:13:57,900 --> 00:14:01,100 And he says, okay, destroy this Temple and I will raise it up in 269 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:02,200 three days. Now. 270 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,800 They think he's talking about the Jerusalem Temple and that 271 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,400 makes sense in context because he's Standing in the temple. 272 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:09,600 So you've got to have a bit of sympathy for them. 273 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,900 That would seem to be the natural interpretation. 274 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,200 Now. Apparently these words destroy 275 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,300 this sanctuary in three days. I will raise it up. 276 00:14:17,300 --> 00:14:19,300 Apparently, the Jewish leaders remembered that. 277 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:23,100 He said that. Because later at Jesus trial the 278 00:14:23,100 --> 00:14:25,600 witnesses, use these words against him. 279 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,100 They try to indicate that Jesus plan to destroy the temple. 280 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:31,900 So remember, in his trial, some witnesses come forward. 281 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:35,100 And say, this man said he will destroy the sanctuary and raise 282 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:38,000 it up in three days. Now notice here, that Jesus 283 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,500 doesn't say that he himself will destroy the temple. 284 00:14:40,900 --> 00:14:44,100 All he says, is destroyed the sanctuary and in three days, I 285 00:14:44,100 --> 00:14:48,200 will raise it up. So actually, what Jesus implies 286 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,800 is that a, the Jewish leaders will be the ones to destroy the 287 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:56,100 temple and that ends up being true, both of the Jerusalem 288 00:14:56,100 --> 00:14:59,800 Temple literally because by their own, unfaithfulness, they 289 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,200 end up having the temple destroyed. 290 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,300 If you look at history, that's basically what happens. 291 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:08,600 And also Jesus are in death that is due to the Jewish leaders. 292 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:10,800 They kill him as well. They destroy both a literal 293 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:15,300 Temple and the Temple of Jesus. So they don't understand. 294 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:17,100 I think he's talking about the Jerusalem Temple. 295 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:21,400 So in verse 20, they reply it has taken 46 years to build this 296 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,400 Sanctuary. Now, what's this 46 years. 297 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,100 Basically? They're talking here about the 298 00:15:26,100 --> 00:15:29,300 period, it takes for them to do the renovations and the 299 00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:32,800 extensions of on the temple. We know from history that in 300 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:38,100 about 19, BC or 20, BC under Herod, the Great Herod, ordered 301 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:41,500 the temple to undergo some big extension and renovation work. 302 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:43,500 That was continuing in the time of Jesus. 303 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:49,000 Now, let's do the maths here. If this Temple work started in 304 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,800 19, BC or 20, BC history is a bit unclear about which year it 305 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,300 was. And now here, the Jewish leaders 306 00:15:55,300 --> 00:15:57,800 say to Jesus, it is taken as 46 years. 307 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,200 Well, that would place this event in ad, 27, or 28. 308 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:05,700 That's much too late for the end of Jesus ministry. 309 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:08,700 And it depends on how you use other dates in the gospel. 310 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:12,100 Some people would say, Jesus began his ministry in ad 27, 311 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:16,000 some would say he began in ad. The 30 and then if you add 3 312 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,600 used to that, that means Jesus was either crucified in ad 30 or 313 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,000 ad 33. So it depends which dating 314 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,700 system you use. But here's one of these 315 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:26,900 interesting dating ones that would seem to indicate that this 316 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:30,500 event, the cleansing of the temple happens in ad 27 and 317 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:33,100 Scholars debate about the best way to fit this in 318 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:36,600 chronologically in some ways. It fits the data of the gospels 319 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,300 in some ways. It seems a little hard to fit 320 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:40,800 the data of the Gospel. So maybe we'll never get an 321 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,200 answer to this question of. When did the cleansing of the 322 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,400 temple happen or We will get an answer as we continue to do 323 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:49,400 research into this passage. And that's what Biblical 324 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,100 Scholars do. That's what the Catholic Church 325 00:16:51,100 --> 00:16:53,700 tells biblical Scholars. They should do is help us 326 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,600 clarify the text through research. 327 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,500 So they asked him here. Are you going to raise it up in 328 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:01,500 three days? So, they're thinking, well, it 329 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:05,300 took us 46 years to build it. How then can Jesus say, it's 330 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:08,800 only going to take three years to three days rather to build 331 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,900 it. That's a big difference from 46 332 00:17:10,900 --> 00:17:14,400 years verse 21. Now John the narrator He says, 333 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,099 but he was speaking of the sanctuary. 334 00:17:16,099 --> 00:17:19,800 That was his body. So John here tells us what Jesus 335 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,500 meant by these words in the old Covenant. 336 00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:25,900 The temple was the place where God dwelt in the New Covenant. 337 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:28,000 Jesus is the dwelling place of God. 338 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:32,100 He is God in human flesh. And that's what John said early 339 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:34,800 in his gospel. Remember John said he made his 340 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,500 dwelling Among Us in chapter 1, verse 14. 341 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:41,300 So, when Jesus says here, destroy this Temple and I will 342 00:17:41,308 --> 00:17:44,500 raise it in three days. He intends the Jewish leaders to 343 00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:47,600 understand that he is now the place of God's residence. 344 00:17:48,100 --> 00:17:51,200 He says the Jewish leaders attention should be on him, not 345 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,900 the temple from this point on and that's a huge claim. 346 00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:57,000 And of course they see as Blasphemous but it does match 347 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000 other things. Jesus says later remember at the 348 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,400 with a woman at the well in chapter 4 Jesus says the time is 349 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,700 coming when people will worship God in spirit and in truth. 350 00:18:08,100 --> 00:18:10,900 Now here, if there's another element we can take from this, 351 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:13,200 Jesus makes a prophecy of his own Resurrection. 352 00:18:13,500 --> 00:18:16,300 He knows in advance how long he's going to be in the Tomb 353 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:17,700 here. As in other places. 354 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:21,300 He says, I'm going to be in the Tomb for three days and then 355 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:25,100 I'll rise again and when Jesus rises, again, it serves as a 356 00:18:25,108 --> 00:18:27,800 confirmation to the, Jewish leaders of Everything. 357 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,200 Jesus said and did during his life. 358 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,800 There's a lot of aspects to the resurrection and one of them is 359 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,500 as a sign to the Jewish leaders, that everything Jesus said about 360 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:41,000 his eye. Entity is correct, verse 22. 361 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,300 And when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered 362 00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:47,400 that he had said this and they believed the scripture and the 363 00:18:47,408 --> 00:18:48,600 words. He had said. 364 00:18:49,300 --> 00:18:52,500 Now at the time according to John, the disciples did not 365 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:55,600 understand those words of Jesus. When he said, destroy this 366 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,300 temple in three days, I will raise it up, but apparently 367 00:18:59,300 --> 00:19:02,000 later when Jesus rose from the dead, they looked back on this 368 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 incident and they realized what he was talking about. 369 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:09,100 Now, the disciples were probably it's Not just simple memory. 370 00:19:09,100 --> 00:19:11,400 It's not just them simply using their own intellect. 371 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,800 To look back on these events and work out what was going on 372 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:15,600 there. Probably Guided by the holy 373 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,300 spirit, in this special, kind of remembering. 374 00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:23,200 If you look at 14:26 in John, it talks about how the Holy Spirit 375 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:27,300 guides the disciples after the resurrection, to look back on 376 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:29,300 these events and see their significance. 377 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:35,100 So John, he says, eventually that able to look back and 378 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:38,600 remember this event after Jesus resurrection and it gives them 379 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,000 confidence to trust in Jesus and it gives them confidence to 380 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,400 trust the whole Old Testament scriptures, which spoke of Jesus 381 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,300 as the Messiah. That's what John says here in 382 00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:49,900 verse 22. He says, when they remembered he 383 00:19:49,900 --> 00:19:52,600 had said this. They believed the scripture and 384 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,200 the words he had said, so when Jesus rise for his from the 385 00:19:55,208 --> 00:19:58,400 dead, it all comes together for the apostles and they see how it 386 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,100 all fits in God's Plan of Salvation. 387 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,000 So we get to verse 23, and there's a really interesting 388 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,900 language here. John says, during his stay in 389 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:10,800 Jerusalem for the Passover. So remember, Jesus is in 390 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:12,500 Jerusalem at this stage for the Passover. 391 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:15,700 The first one, he goes through during his ministry, many 392 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:19,400 believed in his name, else is quite significant. 393 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,500 If you think about it often, we get the impression that the 394 00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:25,100 people in the countryside believed in Jesus, but in 395 00:20:25,100 --> 00:20:27,600 Jerusalem, he wasn't particularly well received while 396 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,700 here John tells us that's not the case. 397 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,100 There's always people in Jerusalem who do believe in 398 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:36,100 Jesus and the language John uses here is. 399 00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:39,100 They believed in his name and basically that means they put 400 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:42,600 their trust in Jesus. Some people in the crowd at the 401 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,400 Passover, put their trust in Jesus and they start following 402 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,300 him. But as we'll see, it seems to be 403 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:50,000 people who don't fully understand. 404 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,700 Jesus, identity. They interested in the him and 405 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:55,800 they believe that he's from God in some sense because he can do 406 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,400 Miracles, but they don't really understand his identity. 407 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,700 Still though. They believed in his name. 408 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,400 So there's people in Jerusalem for the Passover, probably, some 409 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,700 who are locals, and probably some, who are pilgrims who have 410 00:21:08,700 --> 00:21:11,800 come to Jerusalem for the feast who believe in Jesus. 411 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,100 And John says, the reason they do that is because they saw the 412 00:21:15,100 --> 00:21:18,900 signs that he gave. So it's likely that Jesus is 413 00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:22,500 performing some signs here in Jerusalem that are not recorded. 414 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:24,100 This is quite early in his ministry. 415 00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:28,100 Jesus is in Jerusalem early, and he's doing some signs and that's 416 00:21:28,100 --> 00:21:32,300 causing people to believe. Then John says this but Jesus 417 00:21:32,300 --> 00:21:35,700 knew them all. So Jesus, here is reading the 418 00:21:35,700 --> 00:21:37,300 hearts of these people in Jerusalem. 419 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:40,500 He has this kind of Supernatural knowledge, where he can perceive 420 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:42,700 their thoughts and their hearts. And this is mentioned elsewhere 421 00:21:42,700 --> 00:21:46,900 in the gospels to what it literally says here is that he 422 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:51,000 knew all men and that connects in a way to the prologue. 423 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,500 Remember in John chapter 1 in that really elevated language, 424 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:59,100 John says that Jesus was the light that enlightens all men 425 00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:01,400 and that's a sort. It's a deep kind of 426 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:03,300 philosophical thing. Going on here. 427 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,900 Jesus knew all men. He perceives what's going on in 428 00:22:06,900 --> 00:22:11,300 the hearts of all men. And John says he did not trust 429 00:22:11,300 --> 00:22:15,300 himself to them. So even though many in the crowd 430 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:17,300 here at Passover, a believing in Jesus. 431 00:22:17,300 --> 00:22:19,900 He does not allow himself to become their leader. 432 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,000 He doesn't really trust them in the sense and he doesn't allow 433 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,300 them to be distracted from his mission, because he knows their 434 00:22:26,300 --> 00:22:29,500 hearts, and he can see that. Although they believed in him. 435 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:31,600 They believe he can do. Miracles, their faith is 436 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,200 deficient. It's not true. 437 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,400 Genuine Faith. They're marveling and his 438 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:39,000 miracles and they consider him to be like a wonder worker, but 439 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,100 they don't really grasp the significance. 440 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:44,600 If you off his identity or Mission, and of course, Jesus is 441 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,400 always on about that. Particularly in the Gospel of 442 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,700 John. He wants people to understand 443 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:52,800 his identity that he's from God. He's not just some amazing 444 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,000 Miracle Worker. He's there on a certain Mission 445 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,100 and he can tell whether people are accepting that truth or not. 446 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:01,900 And we're going to see in chapter 3 in the next chapter 447 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:05,800 Nicodemus, embodies this kind of attitude where he sees the Jesus 448 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,600 is from God, but he does not understand what that means. 449 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,800 And what Jesus true identity is verse 25. 450 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,800 He never needed evidence about any man or another translation 451 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,700 of that is he needed. No one to Bear witness of man. 452 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:23,400 He could tell what a man had in him or more. 453 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,000 Literally. He himself knew what was in, 454 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,100 man. So John is trying to emphasize 455 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:31,100 to his readers that Jesus knew, what was I'm gone in everyone's 456 00:23:31,100 --> 00:23:34,200 Hearts. He did not need to get to know 457 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,500 them. He could just tell he could just 458 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:39,400 read their hearts with a supernatural knowledge and he 459 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,900 knows that they do not fully understand his identity. 460 00:23:43,100 --> 00:23:46,100 So that's the end of John Chapter 2 and the next section. 461 00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:49,600 We start John chapter 3. And that's the famous story of 462 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,500 Nicodemus. You can hear that on week 2 of 463 00:23:53,500 --> 00:23:57,400 eastertide. So just after Easter, we really 464 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,100 break down the conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus. 465 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,600 You might like to go through the podcast archives, to find that 466 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,100 one week to of eastertide is the next section of John. 467 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,500 Let's now turn to the catechism. There's a few places for us to 468 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:14,100 look at today. Paragraph 583 and 584 is a 469 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:16,500 discussion about Jesus relationship with the temple, 470 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:20,100 like the prophets before him. Jesus expressed the deepest 471 00:24:20,100 --> 00:24:21,900 respect for the temple in Jerusalem. 472 00:24:21,900 --> 00:24:25,000 Jesus went up to the temple as the privileged place of 473 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,300 encounter with God for him. The temple was the dwelling of 474 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:32,300 his father, a House of Prayer. And he was angered that it's out 475 00:24:32,300 --> 00:24:34,300 of court, had become a place of Commerce. 476 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,300 He drove Merchants out of it because of jealous. 477 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:40,200 Love for his father. You shall not make my father's 478 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,700 house, a house of trade, his disciples remembered that. 479 00:24:43,700 --> 00:24:48,400 It was written Zeal for your house, will consume me and then 480 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,800 in paragraph, 586 far from having been hostile to the 481 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,600 temple. Jesus even identified himself 482 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,200 with the temple by presenting himself as God's definitive 483 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,500 Dwelling, Place among men. Therefore he is being put to 484 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:04,800 bodily death presaged, the destruction of the temple which 485 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,800 would manifest the dawning of a new age. 486 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,700 In the history of Salvation. The hour is coming. 487 00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:12,500 When neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 488 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:17,700 Will you worship the father? Part of 575. 489 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:20,900 This is about Jesus relationship with Israel and here, the 490 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:23,500 Catholic Church via the catechism teaches us how to 491 00:25:23,500 --> 00:25:26,200 understand a certain phrase in the gospels. 492 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,700 That says many of Jesus words and deeds constituted a sign of 493 00:25:30,700 --> 00:25:34,000 contradiction but more. So for the religious authorities 494 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,700 in Jerusalem Whom The Gospel, according to John, often simply 495 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:41,500 calls the Jews then for the Ordinary People of God. 496 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:44,100 So here, the catechism, specifically says that, when 497 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:47,900 John uses the term, Choose, it means the Jewish leaders, not 498 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:52,300 the Ordinary People of God. Paragraph 99 for this is about 499 00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:54,400 the progressive revelation of the Resurrection. 500 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,600 So, it's about how do we understand the resurrection of 501 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,100 Jesus. Jesus, links faith in the 502 00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:02,800 resurrection to his own person. I am the resurrection and the 503 00:26:02,808 --> 00:26:05,500 life. It is Jesus himself, who, on the 504 00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:08,700 last day will raise up. Those who have believed in him, 505 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,200 who have eaten his body and drink his blood already. 506 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,300 Now, in this present life, he gives a sign and pledge of this 507 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,400 by restoring, some of the Dead to life announcing their by his 508 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,100 own Resurrection. Though it was to be of another 509 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:24,600 order. He speaks of this unique event 510 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,600 as the sign of Jonah, the sign of the temple. 511 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,500 He announces that he will be put to death but rise thereafter on 512 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,500 the third day. And the last one we'll look at 513 00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:39,000 is paragraph 473. This is about Christ's soul and 514 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,500 his human knowledge. And it's going to refer here to 515 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:44,700 how Jesus can read people's minds. 516 00:26:45,300 --> 00:26:48,600 But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God's son, 517 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,800 expressed the Divine Life of his person, the human nature of 518 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:57,100 God's son, not by itself, but by its Union with the word new and 519 00:26:57,100 --> 00:27:00,400 showed forth in itself, everything that pertains to God. 520 00:27:00,700 --> 00:27:03,500 Such is, first of all, the case with the intimate and immediate 521 00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:07,900 knowledge, that the Son of God made, man has of his father, the 522 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:11,900 son in his human knowledge also showed the Divine penetration 523 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,500 that he had into the secret thoughts of human hearts. 524 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,800 So, some fairly complex theology here, but really important 525 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,000 stuff. So, I'm put all include those 526 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,300 paragraphs in the show notes for you to look at. 527 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,900 Hopefully, you were able to learn something new about the 528 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:29,900 account here of Jesus cleansing. The temple will continue to move 529 00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:31,600 through the gospels in the coming days.