Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
      (2.) The first work we find him at in the temple was the purging of it; for so it was foretold there (Malachi 3:2; Malachi 3:3): He shall sit as a refiner and purify the sons of Levi. Now was come the time of reformation. Christ came to be the great reformer; and, according to the method of the reforming kings of Judah, he first purged out what was amiss (and that used to be passover-work too, as in Hezekiah's time, 2 Chronicles 30:14; 2 Chronicles 30:15, and Josiah's, 2 Kings 23:4, c.), and then taught them to do well. First purge out the old leaven, and then keep the feast. Christ's design in coming into the world was to reform the world and he expects that all who come to him should reform their hearts and lives, Genesis 35:2. And this he has taught us by purging the temple. See here,