"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 ...
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle...
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13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep...
Etc Etc. He is said to have went to the temple in Jerusalem and overturned the tables of moneychangers who crowded the verandas of the temple. Later that week Jesus celebrated the Passover feast which is regarded as the “Last supper”. After that Jesus went to the garden of Gethsemane...
5 Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break [the sanctity of] the Sabbath and yet are innocent? 6 But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 And if you had only known what this statement means, ‘I desire compassion...
“In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves. He saw others sitting at tables, exchanging different kinds of money. 15 Jesus made a whip out of cords and forced all of them, both the sheep and cattle, to leave the Temple. He turned over the tables and scattered th...
In the Temple. The Test of the Tribute. The Last Supper. The Crucifixion. —In Theology: Legends Concerning His Birth. As Healer and Wonder-Worker. As Helper of the Poor and Forsaken. Man of the People; Not a Reformer. The Kingdom of God. His Death. The Resurrection. —In Jewish Leg...
While some might see Jesus’ assertiveness in confronting his opponents and in turning over the tables in the temple as demonstrating a lack of humility, they are in keeping with his calling (as a prophetic preacher of repentance and herald of the Reign) and thus his character. Indeed, for ...
short trip to Tyre and Sidon, all other events in the Gospels are set in ancient Israel. Only one incident between his infancy and his adult life, the Finding in the Temple, is mentioned in the canonical gospels, although New Testament apocrypha go into these details, some quite extensively...