s these were called
"miracles"; and Jesus did them as signs of his power as the Son of God.
When the disciples saw this miracle, they believed in Jesus more fully
than before.

After this Jesus went with his mother and his younger brothers to a
place called Capernaum, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. But they
stayed there only a few days, for the feast of the Passover was near,
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem to attend it. You remember that the feast
of the Passover was held every year, to keep in mind how God had led the
people of Israel out of Egypt long before.

When Jesus came to Jerusalem, he found in the courts of the Temple men
who were selling oxen and sheep and doves for the sacrifices, and other
men sitting at tables changing the money of Jews who came from other
lands into the money of Judea. All this made the courts around the
Temple seem like a market, and not a place for the worship of God.

[Illustration: _"Take these things away"_]

Jesus picked up some cord and made from it a little whip. With it he
began to drive out of the Temple all the buyers and sellers. He was but
one, and they were many; but such power was in his look, that they ran
before him. He drove the men and the sheep and the oxen; he overturned
the tables and threw on the floor the money, and to those who were
selling the doves he said: "Take these things away; make not my Father's
house a house for selling and buying!"

The acts of Jesus were not pleasing to the rulers of the Jews, for many
of them were making money by this selling of sacrifices and changing of
money. Some of the rulers came to Jesus and said to him: "What right
have you to come here and do such things as these? What sign can you
show that God has given to you power to rule in this place?"

Jesus said to them: "I will give you a sign. Destroy this house of God,
and in three days I will raise it up."

Then said the Jews, "It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple,
and it is not finished yet. Will you raise it up in three days?"

But Jesus did not mean that Temple on Mount Moriah. He was speaking of
himself, for in him God was dwelling as in a temple, and he meant that
when they should put him to death, he would rise again in three days.
Afterward, when Jesus had died and risen again, his followers, the
disciples, thought of what he had said, and understood these words.

THE STORY OF THE STRANGER AT THE WELL

While Jesus was teaching in Jerusal