John 2:13-17 records Jesus' cleansing of the temple at the beginning of His ministry. When He had driven the moneychangers and all the animals out of the temple grounds, the disciples remembered a Messianic passage, "Then His disciples remembered that it was written, 'Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.'" (v. 17) Jesus' intense zeal for His Father's will is admirable, and should be imitated by His disciples.