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JESUS CLEARS THE TEMPLE

John 2:12-25

Key Verse: 2:16b

 1. Read 2:12-14. What is the time and place? What was going on in the temple that angered Jesus?  Why would selling animals in the temple courts at Passover time be mutually beneficial both to the travelers coming for the Passover and the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem?

2.   Read v.15-17.What did Jesus do and say? What do his words and actions reveal about his own identity? What was the unique place of the temple in the life of the Jewish people? (2Ch 7:12-16)

3.   Read 18-19. What did the Jewish leaders demand of Jesus when they saw his actions? Why? How did Jesus answer? What did he mean? How would Jesus take the place of the temple, making it obsolete? Where is our temple? (Jn 2:21; 1Co 6:19; Jn 14:23)

4.   Read 20-22. Did the Jewish leaders understand Jesus' answer? Why might it have been hard for the disciples to accept Jesus' zeal to clear the temple? How did they try to understand his actions? (17)

5.   Read 23-25. Did the disciples understand what Jesus meant when he talked about building the temple in 3 days? What can we learn here about the foundation of the disciples' faith? What is the difference between faith that rests on seeing signs and miracles and faith that rests on the word of God?

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• Jn2_12-25q-revised.doc

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