Mark 11:15-18
Cleansing the Temple
11:15 Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,
11:16 and he would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.
11:17 Then he began to teach them and said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”
11:18 The chief priests and the experts in the law heard it and they considered how they could assassinate him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.
Mark 11:27
The Authority of Jesus
11:27 They came again to Jerusalem. While Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the elders came up to him
Mark 12:35
The Messiah: David’s Son and Lord
12:35 While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he said, “How is it that the experts in the law say that the Christ is David’s son?
Matthew 21:23-27
The Authority of Jesus
21:23 Now after Jesus entered the temple courts, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”
21:24 Jesus answered them, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.
21:25 Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from people?” They discussed this among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’
21:26 But if we say, ‘From people,’ we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet.”
21:27 So they answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Then he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
Luke 19:47--20:2
19:47 Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,
19:48 but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on his words.
The Authority of Jesus
20:1 Now one day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the experts in the law with the elders came up
20:2 and said to him, “Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things? Or who it is who gave you this authority?”
Luke 21:37-38
21:37 So every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but at night he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives.
21:38 And all the people came to him early in the morning to listen to him in the temple courts.
John 7:28-30
7:28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,
7:29 but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”
7:30 So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.
John 7:37
Teaching About the Spirit
7:37 On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and
John 8:2
8:2 Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach
them.
John 8:12
Jesus as the Light of the World
8:12 Then Jesus spoke out again, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 10:23
10:23 It was winter,
and Jesus was walking in the temple area
in Solomon’s Portico.
John 18:20
18:20 Jesus replied,
“I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues
and in the temple courts,
where all the Jewish people
assemble together. I
have said nothing in secret.