"But Jesus was not a pacifist," we're told in pulpits every Memorial Day. This claim is always based on Jesus overturning the tables in the temple. But what are Christians commanded to do in the face of "tables" of warmaking? Shouldn't we overturn them? In fact, Christians have ...
The Temple no longer stands in Jerusalem. Now, thanks to the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Spirit of God dwells within his people, those who have been forgiven for their sins. It’s no surprise then that the New Testament refers to our bodies as the Temple of the Holy ...
The family of Annas owned the flocks from which the sacrificial animals had to come. They also controlled the money-changing tables at the Temple, which were called “booths of Annas.” They charged greatly inflated prices on sacrificial animals, extorted money, and stole funds intended to sup...
Less than ten years later, a soldier watching over Jews celebrating the Passover at the Temple (according to historian Josephus, writing in about 90 C.E.) "raised his robe, stooped in an indecent attitude, so as to turn his backside to the Jews, and made a noise in keeping with his ...
Jesus at the Temple - Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money
But, what you don’t seem to understand is that, respectfully, I don’t go to church because so much of it has become so far removed from the heart of God that I can’t even breathe inside and Jesus is virtually nowhere to be found. In fact, I can tell you for damn sure, it ...
At the temple, they saw money changers and merchants selling goods. In a rare display of anger, Jesus overturned the tables and, with a whip made of cords, drove them out, declaring that his Father’s house isn’t a house for merchants. The Synoptic Gospels chronicle Jesus as he ...
22 When they came together in Galilee, he said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. 23 They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.” And the dis...
As he said this he overturned the tables of those overcharging for animal sacrifices and for currency exchanges to pay the fee for temple upkeep. This event appears in all four Gospels, as if to stress our Lord’s anger at such larceny. ...
15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; 16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through ...