Tuesday, March 10

The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!" His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me." The Jews then said to him, "What sign can you show us for doing this?" Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews then said, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?" But he was speaking of the temple of his body. After 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. John 2:13-22


When Christ drove the sellers of animals and money changers from the temple, he told his Jewish inquisitors that if they destroyed this temple, in three days he would raise it up again. They thought Christ was talking about the temple building, but he spoke about the temple of his body that we know was raised three days after death.

Since we are made in God’s image, should we not treat our bodies as holy temples and have faith that we also will be raised at an appointed time to share the promised life everlasting?

Elder George Gotcsik