Lent 3 Series B

THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT - Series B

7 March 2021

Exodus 20:1–17

1 Corinthians 1:18–31

John 2:13–22 (23–25)

Collect for Lent 3 – O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy, be gracious to all who have gone astray from Your ways and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of Your Word; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God, now and forever.

The Crucified and Risen Body of Jesus Is the True Temple of the Lord

The Lord rescues His people, Israel, “out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (Exodus 20:2) and makes His gracious covenant with them, defined by the Ten Commandments. Since He has become their God by His grace, they shall be His people, having “no other gods” before Him (Exodus 20:3). He is “jealous” for them as a husband for his wife and as a father for his children. He has named them with His name and called them to rest in Him (Exodus 20:5–9). The incarnate Son, Christ Jesus, is likewise jealous for His Father’s house, because it is to be a place of divine grace and Sabbath rest for His people, and not “a house of trade” (John 2:16–17). His zeal consumes Him as He gives up “the temple of his body” to the destruction of the cross, but in three days He raises it up again to be the true temple forever (John 2:17–21). By His crucifixion He cleanses the entire household, and in His resurrection He becomes “wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption” (1 Corinthians 1:30).

John 2:13–22

John 2:13

 Καὶ ἐγγὺς ἦν τὸ πάσχα τῶν Ἰουδαίων, καὶ ἀνέβη εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα ὁ Ἰησοῦς.

The Passover was near, Jesus enters Jerusalem...

the first Passover in John. He'll do it again after Passover.  V. 13 He kept the law for us.

John 2:14

καὶ εὗρεν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τοὺς πωλοῦντας βόας καὶ πρόβατα καὶ περιστερὰς καὶ τοὺς κερματιστὰς καθημένους, 

He found in the temple those selling oxen, sheep and doves along with the money changers. 

What were they doing with the funds? Funding the insurrection? V. 14

John 2:15

καὶ ποιήσας φραγέλλιον ἐκ σχοινίων πάντας ἐξέβαλεν ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ τά τε πρόβατα καὶ τοὺς βόας, καὶ τῶν κολλυβιστῶν ἐξέχεεν τὰ κέρματα καὶ τὰς τραπέζας ἀνέστρεψεν,

So he made a whip from cords, and all of them he drove out of the temple oxen, and sheep and poured out the money changers and turned over the tables. 

v. 15 He doesn't find a whip he makes one...

A sign of what will happen to him. A foreshadow of what is to happen... Mark 15:15 

They were fulfilling the Law now he fulfills it....he becomes the temple ...they were doing this inside the temple.

Caution, don't make this more Law...

This is the court of the Gentiles 28 acres 

John 2:16

 καὶ τοῖς τὰς περιστερὰς πωλοῦσιν εἶπεν• Ἄρατε ταῦτα ἐντεῦθεν, μὴ ποιεῖτε τὸν οἶκον τοῦ πατρός μου οἶκον ἐμπορίου.

To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!” See prophecy of Zech. 14:21

John 2:17

ἐμνήσθησαν οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ὅτι γεγραμμένον ἐστίν• Ὁ ζῆλος τοῦ οἴκου σου καταφάγεταί με.

His disciples remembered that it is written:“Zeal for your house will consume (eat me down) me.” 

He was eaten up with zeal. Ps. 69:9

They get it but they don't.

John 2:18-19

ἀπεκρίθησαν οὖν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῷ• Τί σημεῖον δεικνύεις ἡμῖν, ὅτι ταῦτα ποιεῖς; 19 ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς• Λύσατε τὸν ναὸν τοῦτον καὶ ἐν τρισὶν ἡμέραις ἐγερῶ αὐτόν.

Then the Jews demanded of him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” 

The Jews ask for a sign he tells them the resurrection. This is THE sign. To ask for a sign is a sign of unbelief. In John "sign" = miracle. They ask for a miracle and He gives them His death. 

John 2:20

εἶπαν οὖν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι• Τεσσεράκοντα καὶ ἓξ ἔτεσιν οἰκοδομήθη ὁ ναὸς οὗτος, καὶ σὺ ἐν τρισὶν ἡμέραις ἐγερεῖς αὐτόν;

The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,[a] and will you raise it up in three days?”

John 2:21

ἐκεῖνος δὲ ἔλεγεν περὶ τοῦ ναοῦ τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ.

But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 

John 2:22

ὅτε οὖν ἠγέρθη ἐκ νεκρῶν, ἐμνήσθησαν οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ὅτι τοῦτο ἔλεγεν, καὶ ἐπίστευσαν τῇ γραφῇ καὶ τῷ λόγῳὃν εἶπεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς.

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

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