Quotes about Temple

At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.

When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.

Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”

Every day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.

But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.

However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates, hoping to offer a sacrifice along with the crowds.

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.

There is danger not only that our business will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her majesty deposed—she who is worshiped by all the province of Asia and the whole world.”

Finally the city clerk quieted the crowd and declared, “Men of Ephesus, doesn’t everyone know that the city of Ephesus is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?

For you have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed our temple nor blasphemed our goddess.

So the next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he entered the temple to give notice of the date when their purification would be complete and the offering would be made for each of them.