✝️ Holy Monday 🕊️
Jesus Flipped Tables!
Jesus saw that in the outer courtyard of the temple there were money changers and merchants selling animals for sacrifices. This was an area reserved for all nations to pray and worship since only Jewish men could get closer to the inner court.
They had turned a sacred space into a market (and likely a corrupt one that was taking advantage of poor travelers needing to buy doves for their Passover sacrifices). Jesus was outraged at this defiling of the temple and overturned tables and drove them out of there.
This of course upset the corrupt religious leaders who started plotting how to get him killed.
”They came to Jerusalem, and he went into the temple and began to throw out those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves, and would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple. He was teaching them: “Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves!” The chief priests and the scribes heard it and started looking for a way to kill him. For they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was astonished by his teaching.“
Mark 11:15-18 CSB
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