Read John 2 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
Chapter 2 makes the following Chiastic Structure:
The religious professionals asked Jesus for a sign, since He cleansed the Temple of money changers. Their question goes back to Moses, since God gave Moses a mission at the burning bush, and then gave him miraculous signs to perform so that people would believe that he really did have authority from God to confront Pharaoh.
But Jesus, instead of showing them a sign right then, said that if the Temple was destroyed, He would raise it up again in three days. (Thus three is a Sign of Messiah in Scripture.) In other words, the miraculous sign proving His authority is the resurrection from the dead after three days (F pair in the structure).
Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God 2 which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, 3 concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, 4 and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. Rom 1:1-4
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