A positive orientation toward the temple and its cult seems to have been a virtually universal index of Jewish piety in the period before the first revolt against Rome. Particular priests might come in for criticism; the temple itself did not. 

We have inferred from the gospel stories that Jesus himself shared in this orientation. And that inference is supported by two later facts: first, his earliest followers, after his death, chose to settle in Jerusalem and to participate in normal temple worship; and, second, Paul’s letters—our earliest source for the movement around Jesus—express such piety as well. 

If Jesus himself ever issued a condemnation of the temple and its operations, in other words, his first followers, Paul included, knew nothing about it. - Paula Fredricksen