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In the New Testament it is stated that after the capturing of John , Jesus went to the Galilee . The story about John 's arrest is not stated until considerably later in connection with his death . He was arrested at the end of his report of John 's preaching it is only simply stated and Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee . How much time had elapsed between the temptation and the return to Galilee and what Jesus had been doing in the meantime is not stated in the testament . however

the Fourth Gospel , which ignores both the baptism and the temptation , says that on the day after John 's testimony to Jesus at the Jordan he repeated it in the hearing of two of his disciples (In 1 :35-42 , one of whom was Andrew of Bethsaida in Galilee , and that Andrew thereupon brought his brother Simon to Jesus , who named him forthwith "The Rock

After that , Jesus spent a few days in Capernaum "with his mother and his brothers and his disciples " and then returned to Jerusalem . But the entrance in Jerusalem was so silently the people believe that Jesus comes from the Golden Gate where it was believed the messiah would enter Jerusalem . After reaching there Jesus goes straight to the Temple , Herod 's Temple , and starts , without explanation , throwing over tables and driving the dove salesman and money changers from the courtyard of the Temple and stops people from bringing anything for sale through the Temple courts . The doves were used for sacrifices and the standard Greek or Roman money used by people had to be changed into special blessed Jewish or Tyrian money suitable for use . Jesus tells everyone that "Is it not written 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations

But you have made it a den of robbers . The incident with the money changers is in all the Gospels...

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