13 The time for the Passover Feast of the Jews was near. So Jesus went to Jerusalem.

14 In the temple he found people buying and selling things. They were selling cows, sheep, and doves. Others were sitting at tables changing money for the people.

15 Jesus tied some pieces of cord together to make a whip. Then he drove out all the people who were buying and selling in the temple. And he drove out the sheep and the cows. He threw down the tables of the money changers and their money.

16 He said to the people who sold doves, Take these things out of here. Do not make my Fathers house into a market place.

17 His disciples remembered that Gods word says, My love for your house is like a fire burning in me.