A reading adapted from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.

When the Passover Feast was about to take place, Jesus traveled up to Jerusalem. He found the Temple teeming with people selling cattle and sheep and doves. The loan sharks were also there in full strength.

Jesus put together a whip and chased them out of the Temple, stampeding the sheep and cattle, upending the tables of the loan sharks, spilling coins left and right. He told the dove merchants “Get your things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a shopping mall.”

But the Jews were upset. “What credentials can you present to justify this?” Jesus answered, “Tear down this Temple and in three days I’ll put it back together.”

They were indignant: “It took forty-six years to build this Temple and you’re going to rebuild it in three days?” But Jesus was talking about his body as the Temple.

The Good News adapted from Luke.