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Clearing the Temple of Money Changers and Merchants

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As Jesus neared the Temple, after leaving Cana, his ears caught the noise of the market in the outer court. Cattle were lowing, sheep were bleating, merchants were shouting, and sellers and buyers were arguing. Jesus made a whip and advanced toward the money changers and merchants. He tipped over many tables and scattered money everywhere.

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Keywords	Jesus overturned temple
Secondary Keywords	angry arm coins crowd dogs falling frustrated money money changers people running tables whip
Scriptures	John 2:12-23 Matthew 21:12-13
John 2 12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.”17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?”19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?”21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. Matthew 21 12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

Clearing the Temple of Money Changers and Merchants

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Matthew 21

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