Worship In Christ
In John chapter 2, you see different sides to Jesus. In the first half of the chapter, Jesus does something very kind for a newlywed couple and their families. But then in the second half of John 2, Jesus does something surprising! He makes a cord of whips, knocks over tables, and chases animals and people from the Temple. Jesus does something sweet! And on the surface, Jesus does something that is terrible. You wouldn't want anyone coming into your house and knocking over tables and rearranging your furniture. You probably wouldn't invite them back. You see, Jesus doesn't fit into the box we want to make for Him. He is beyond our understanding, and He is worthy of our worship!
John 2:12-25
12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 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.
Jesus Knows What Is in Man
23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. 24 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.
