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Catechism of the Catholic Church
583 Jesus, like the prophets before him, for the Temple of Jerusalem the deepest respect. It was presented by Joseph and Mary forty days after his birth (cf. Lk 2, 22-39). At the age of twelve, he decides to stay in the Temple to remind his parents that he has business of his Father (cf. Lk 2, 46-49). He went there every year at least for the Passover during His hidden life (cf. Lk 2, 41); his public ministry itself was punctuated by his pilgrimages to Jerusalem for the Jewish high holidays (cf. Jn 2, 13-14, 5, 1. 14, 7, 1.. 10 14, 8, 2, 10, 22-23).
584 Jesus ascended to the Temple as the privileged place of encounter with God. The Temple is for him the house of his father, a house of prayer, and he is outraged that its outer court became a place of traffic (cf. Mt 21, 13). He drove the merchants from the temple is jealous love for his Father: "Do not make my Father's house a house of trade. His disciples remembered that it is written: 'Zeal for your house consume me ' (Ps 69, 10) "(Jn 2, 16-17). After his resurrection, the apostles retained their reverence for the Temple (cf. Acts 2, 46, 3, 1, 5, 20. 21; etc.. ).
585 the threshold of his Passion Jesus announced the coming destruction of this splendid edifice of which there will be no stone upon another (cf. Mt 24: 1-2). There is here a sign of the announcement last time to begin with his own Passover (cf. Mt 24, 3, Luke 13, 35). But this prophecy has been reported so distorted by false witnesses during his interrogation at the high priest (Mk 14, 57-58) and be returned to him as an insult when was nailed to the cross (cf. Mt 27, 39-40).
586 Far from being hostile to the Temple (cf. Mt 8, 4, 23, 21, Lk 17, 14, Jn 4, 22) where he gave most of his teaching (cf. Jn 18, 20 ), Jesus was willing to pay the temple tax by partnering Peter (cf. Mt 17, 24-27) he had made the foundation for his church to come (cf. Mt 16, 18). Further, he identified himself to the Temple by presenting himself as the final dwelling of God among men (cf. Jn 2, 21, Mt 12, 6). That is why his killing body (cf. Jn 2, 18-22) announces the destruction of the Temple which manifest entering a new age of salvation history: "The hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father" (Jn 4, 21, cf. Jn 4, 23 - 24; Mt 27, 51, Heb 9, 11, Ap 21, 22).
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