Lent 3
Worship
Restore Me
Litanies, Prayers And Dialogues For Lent and Easter
Reader 1: The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep,
and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making
a whip of cords, Jesus drove all of them out of the temple, both
the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the
money changers and overturned their tables. Jesus then told those
who were selling the doves,
Reader 2: "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's
house a marketplace!"
Reader 1: At this point the disciples remembered that it was
written, "Zeal for your house will consume me." The Jews then
said to him,
People: "What sign can you show us for doing this?"
Reader 2: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it
up."
People: "This temple has been under construction for forty-six
years, and will you raise it up in three days?"
Reader 1: But Jesus was speaking of the temple of his body. After
he was raised from the dead, the disciples remembered that Jesus
had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that
had been spoken.
Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep,
and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making
a whip of cords, Jesus drove all of them out of the temple, both
the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the
money changers and overturned their tables. Jesus then told those
who were selling the doves,
Reader 2: "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's
house a marketplace!"
Reader 1: At this point the disciples remembered that it was
written, "Zeal for your house will consume me." The Jews then
said to him,
People: "What sign can you show us for doing this?"
Reader 2: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it
up."
People: "This temple has been under construction for forty-six
years, and will you raise it up in three days?"
Reader 1: But Jesus was speaking of the temple of his body. After
he was raised from the dead, the disciples remembered that Jesus
had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that
had been spoken.
