Context: What was the sign and the result? (John 2:1-9, v11)
- People ran out of wine at a wedding and Mary asks Jesus for help
- Jesus says that shouldn’t be their concern – not is it his time
- However, Jesus helped them
- Jesus says that shouldn’t be their concern – not is it his time
- Jesus revealed His glory
- His disciples believed Jesus
Why the trip to Jerusalem? (John 2:13, Ex 12:1-3,11-13 ,Deut 16:2,5-6, 2 Chron 3:1. 30:1)
- Passover:
- Festival in remembrance of God passing over Israel, in Egypt
- The blood on the house being the token of where they live –
- Festival in remembrance of God passing over Israel, in Egypt
- Must be celebrated where God has appointed
- Which was Jerusalem
- The House of God built by Solomon at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah
- Celebrated during Hezekiah’s time – before the captivity
- Celebrated also during Ezra’s time after the return from captivity
- Which was Jerusalem
- Significance:
- John 1:29 …Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!…
- 1 Corinthians 5:7 For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
What is Zeal? How does Jesus show His zeal for His Father’s house? (John 2:13-17)
- Zeal:
- great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective (OED)
- Christ gave himself up & redeemed us to be a people zealous for good works
- The state of the temple: In the temple, Jesus found
- Those who sold oxen, sheep and doves
- Changers of money
- Devout men from many nations were in Jerusalem? (Acts 2:5)
- The change: Jesus
- made a whip of cords and threw out the sheep and oxen
- Poured out the changers money and overthrew their tables
- Told the dove sellers to take those out
- Note: Matthew 21:12-13, Mark 11:15-1, Luke 19:45-46 may be a second incident
In what ways could a church become a marketplace today?
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How did the jews respond? (v18-23)
- Jews wanted a sign since Jesus was cleaning up the temple
- Perhaps in their mind, only someone like a prophet would do such things?
- Similar to Matt 21:23?
- By what authority do you do these things?
- Who gave you this authority?
- Similar to Matt 21:23?
- That is when they connected what Jesus spoke to what actually happened
- Perhaps in their mind, only someone like a prophet would do such things?
Conclusion / Application
- “Zeal for your house will eat me up!”: What’s eating me up?
Main Passage John 2:11-23 – World English Bible (WEB)
11 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. 12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days. 13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. 15 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables. 16 To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”
18 The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”
19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
20 The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he spoke of the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
Notes / Cross References
John 2:1-9 2 The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. 2 Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding. 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.” 6 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece. 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim. 8 He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it. 9 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom
Psalm 69:9 For the zeal of your house consumes me.The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
Exodus 12:1-3 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;
Exodus 12:11-13 11 This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover. 12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh. 13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 16:5-6 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you; 6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 30:1 Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Ezra 6:18-19 18 They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses. 19 The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
Titus 2:14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
