The Passover had come and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And in the temple, he found the ones selling oxen, sheep, and doves. Sitting there were the coin-dealers. He made a whip out of rope and ran the sheep and the oxen out of the temple as well as the coin-dealers, pouring out their coins and overturning their tables. And he said to the merchants, “Get this stuff out of here! Don’t turn my Father’s house into a market place!”

And his disciples remembered that it was written, “The zeal of your house will consume me.”

And the Judeans that were there said to him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove you have the authority to do this?”  Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this shrine, and in three days I will raise it back up.”

The Judeans argued, “It took forty-six years for us to build this temple and you can raise it up in three days?”

But, he spoke of his body as the temple. Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this to them. And they believed the scripture, and what Jesus had said to them.

When he was in Jerusalem on the feast day of the Passover, many believed in his name because they saw the miracles which he did. But Jesus did not reveal himself to them, because he knew mankind. He needed no human affirmation because he understood human flaws.