Jesus: The coming of the King (John 2: 12-25, Acts 17: 22-34) (John 2:12-25, Acts 17:22-34)
Paul Southern, 29th October 2023Part of the Autumn teaching 2023 - Kingdom Come series, preached at a 421 group service
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2:13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2:14 In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.
2:15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
2:16 To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!"
2:17 His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."
2:18 Then the Jews demanded of him, "What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?"
2:19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."
2:20 The Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?"
2:21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.
2:22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
2:23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name.
2:24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men.
2:25 He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.
17:23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:
17:24 "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.
17:25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
17:26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
17:27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
17:28 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
17:29 "Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone--an image made by man's design and skill.
17:30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
17:31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead."
17:32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, "We want to hear you again on this subject."
17:33 At that, Paul left the Council.
17:34 A few men became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.
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