Lectio Divina: For the Third Sunday in Lent

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS ACCORDING TO JOHN (FIRST READER ONLY)

AT PASSOVER, JESUS WENT UP TO JERUSALEM./

HE FOUND, IN THE TEMPLE AREA, PEOPLE SELLING ANIMALS/

AS WELL AS THE MONEY CHANGERS SEATED THERE./

HE MADE A WHIP OUT OF CHORDS/

AND DROVE THEM ALL OUT OF THE TEMPLE AREA./

HE SPILLED THE COINS OF THE MONEY CHANGERS/

AND OVERTURNED THEIR TABLES./

THE JEWS SAID,”WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO DO THIS?”/

JESUS ANSWERED,”DESTROY THIS TEMPLE AND IN THREE DAYS I WILL RAISE IT UP.”/

HE WAS SPEAKING ABOUT THE TEMPLE OF HIS BODY./

MANY BEGAN TO BELIEVE IN HIM WHEN THEY SAW THE SIGNS HE WAS DOING./

BUT JESUS WOULD NOT TRUST HIMSELF TO THEM./

HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT THERE IS IN HUMAN NATURE./