CCC 586 Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay the Temple-tax, associating with him Peter, whom he had just made the foundation of his future Church.¹ He even identified himself with the Temple by presenting himself as God’s definitive dwelling-place among men.² Therefore his being put to bodily death³ presaged the destruction of the Temple, which would manifest the dawning of a new age in the history of salvation: “The hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.”⁴

1 Cf. Mt 8:4; 16:18; 17:24-27; Lk 17:14; Jn 4:22; 18:20.
2 Cf. Jn 2:21; Mt 12:6.
3 Cf. Jn 2:18-22.
4 Jn 4:21; cf. 4:23-24; Mt 27:5; Heb 9:11; Rev 21:22.