Casa de Deus

44 »Our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony in the Desert, built as He who spoke to Moses had instructed him to make it in imitation of the model which he had seen.«

45 That Tent was bequeathed to the next generation of our forefathers. Under Joshua they brought it with them when they were taking possession of the land of the Gentile nations, whom God drove out before them. So it continued till David's time.

46 David obtained favour with God, and asked leave to provide a dwelling-place for the God of Jacob.

47 But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.

48 Yet the Most High does not dwell in buildings erected by men's hands. But, as the Prophet declares,

49 »The sky is My throne, and earth is the footstool for My feet. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or what resting place shall I have?

50 Did not My hand form this universe.'

12 Entering the Temple, Jesus drove out all who were buying and selling there, and overturned the money-changers' tables and the seats of the pigeon-dealers.

13 »It is written,« He said, »My House shall be called the House of Prayer', but you are making it a robbers' cave.«

13 But the Jewish Passover was approaching, and for this Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14 And He found in the Temple the dealers in cattle and sheep and in pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

15 So He plaited a whip of rushes, and drove all –both sheep and bullocks– out of the Temple. The small coin of the brokers He upset on the ground and overturned their tables.

16 And to the pigeon-dealers He said, »Take these things away. Do not turn my Father's house into a market.«

17 This recalled to His disciples the words of Scripture, »My zeal for Thy House will consume me.«

19 Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you–the Spirit whom you have from God?

15 But, for fear I may be hindered, I now write, so that you may have rules to guide you in dealing with God's household. For this is what the Church of the ever-living God is, and it is the pillar and foundation-stone of the truth.

6 but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to the End the boldness and the hope which we boast of as ours.