• PER284 Cleansing of the Temple (second time)

    Jesus' second cleansing of the Temple, on Monday, March 28, AD 33, is a prophetic and symbolic act. By driving the sellers out of the Court of the Gentiles and quoting Isaiah and Jeremiah, Jesus denounces the corruption of worship, asserts his messianic authority and announces the coming judgment on the Temple. This event hastens the decision of the religious leaders to put him to death.

    Luke 19.45-46 (King James Version) :
    And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
    King James Version (1769), domaine public — texte : eBible.org
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Further reading
  • ANN075 The traders driven out of the Temple

    The article examines the incident in which Jesus drives the merchants out of the Temple, an event reported differently in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. While…