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There's More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye for March 4, 2018

Listen to this week's edition of our reflection on the Gospel reading for March 4, 2018 which speaks of the zeal of Jesus for His father's house, prepared by Jill Bevilacqua.

In this week's edition of "There's More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye, Jill Bevilacqua and Sean Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections from the Gospel of St. John 2:13-25.

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Gospel

Since the Passover of the Jews was near,
Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, 
as well as the money changers seated there.

He made a whip out of cords
and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, 
and spilled the coins of the money changers
and overturned their tables, 
and to those who sold doves he said,
"Take these out of here, 
and stop making my Father's house a marketplace."
His disciples recalled the words of Scripture, 
Zeal for your house will consume me.

At this the Jews answered and said to him,
"What sign can you show us for doing this?"
Jesus answered and said to them, 
"Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up."
The Jews said, 

"This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, 
and you will raise it up in three days?"
But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, 
his disciples remembered that he had said this, 
and they came to believe the Scripture 
and the word Jesus had spoken.

While he was in Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, 
many began to believe in his name 
when they saw the signs he was doing.
But Jesus would not trust himself to them because he knew them all, 
and did not need anyone to testify about human nature.
He himself understood it well.

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01 March 2018, 15:58