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The narrative of Jesus and the Money Changers occurs in both the Synoptic Gospels and in the Gospel of John, although it occurs close to the end of the Synoptic Gospels (at Mark 11:15-19, 11:27-33, Matthew 21:12-17, 21:23-27 and Luke 19:45-48, 20:1-8) but close to the start in John (at John 2:12-25) and as a result some bibical scholars think there may have been two incidents. In the episode, Jesus is stated to have visited the Temple in Jerusalem, Herod's Temple, at which the courtyard is described as being filled with livestock and the tables of the money changers, who changed the standard Greek and Roman money for special blessed Jewish and Tyrian money, which were the only coinage that could be used in Temple ceremonies. According to the Gospels, Jesus took offence to this, and so, creating a whip from some cords, drives out the livestock, scatters the coins of the money changers, and turns over their tables, and those of the people selling doves. The chronology of Jesus depicts the traditional chronology established for the events of the life of Jesus by the four canonical gospels (which allude to various dates for several events). ...
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In John, this is the first of the three times that Jesus goes to Jerusalem for the Passover, and John says that during the Passover Feast there were (unspecified) miraculous signs performed by Jesus, which caused people to believe in him, but that he would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. A few Catholic scholars have argued that John may have included this latter statement, about knowing all men, in order to portray Jesus as possessing a knowledge of people's hearts and minds (Brown et al. 955), and hence have attributes that would be expected of God. Panoramic view from Mt. ...
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Narrative details
 Jesus vertreibt die Händler aus dem Tempel by Giovanni Paolo Pannini
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Jesus' criticism According to the synoptics, Jesus targeted specifically the money changers and the dove sellers and justifies his actions by quoting from the Book of Isaiah and the Book of Jeremiah: The Book of Isaiah (Hebrew: Sefer Yshayah ספר ישעיה) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, believed to be written by Isaiah[1]. // The 66 chapters of Isaiah consist primarily of prophecies of the judgments awaiting nations that are persecuting Judah. ...
Bold text The Book of Jeremiah, or Jeremiah (יִרְמְיָהוּ Yirmiyahu in Hebrew), is a book that is part of the Hebrew Bible, Judaisms Tanakh, and later became a part of Christianitys Old Testament. ...
- My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. - Isaiah 56:7
and - But you have made it a den of thieves - Jeremiah 7:11
The quote from Isaiah comes from a section which instructs that all who obey God's will, whether Jewish or not, are to be allowed into the Temple so that they can pray, and therefore converse with God. The loud market-like atmosphere of money changers and livestock often seems to modern readers to be at odds with the Temple being a place of quiet prayer; however, this reflects ignorance of what ancient worship, involving the sacrificial slaughter of animals, was like, and how different it was (and was expected to be) from modern ideas about worship. While Jews would have used money changers, they would specifically be needed by non-Jews changing foreign coins. This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ...
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Mary Magdalene in prayer. ...
The reference to den of thieves may be a reference to inflated pricing or more sinister forms of using a religious cult to exploit the poor. In Mark 12:40 and Luke 20:47 Jesus again accuses the Temple authorities of thieving and this time names poor widows as their victims going on to provide evidence of this in Mark 12:42 and Luke 21:2. Dove sellers were selling doves that were sacrificed by the poor who could not afford grander sacrifices and specifically by women. It could also be translated den of bandits, and it may refer to the rebels against Rome who took refuge in the Temple in the war against Rome that ended with the destruction of the Temple in the year 70 C.E.
According to Mark 11:16 Jesus then put an embargo on people carrying anything through the temple - a sanction that would have disrupted not just economic commerce but worship practices too.
The synoptics then state that the crowd were in awe of Jesus, which concerned "the chief priests and the teachers of the law". Luke and Mark say these Temple leaders were so concerned that they began to plot against Jesus' life, to which Luke adds that the crowd were so in awe with Jesus that no-one could be found to assassinate him. Matthew says the Temple leaders questioned Jesus if he was aware the children were shouting Hosanna to the Son of David, and Jesus having rejected the symbolic center of formal Jewish worship responded by accepting the worship of the children as valid by quoting ...from the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise from the Book of Psalms (Psalm 8:2). The Gospel of Luke is the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament, which tell the story of Jesus life, death, and resurrection. ...
The Gospel of Mark, ascribed to Mark the Evangelist, is traditionally the second Gospel of the New Testament. ...
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The Gospel of John presents a quite different exchange. Jesus is described as angrily criticising the occupants of the temple for turning it into a market. At some point (either after or during the incident) the disciples are described as remembering the quotation zeal for your house consumes me (Psalms 69:9). The word in Greek is ζηλος/zelos/Strong's G2205, from which Zealots is derived. Zealotry denotes zeal in excess, referring to cases where activism and ambition in relation to an ideology have become excessive to the point of being harmful to others, oneself, and ones own cause. ...
Jesus' authority The synoptics and John state that Jesus left the temple after the incident with the money changers, but returned to the Temple courts a day later (though Luke is unspecific how many days had passed), and begins teaching. According to Mark 11:23 Jesus instructed his disciples about having enough faith in God to destroy the whole Temple mountain by casting it into the sea.
The priests, teachers, elders, Pharisees and Herodians are described as coming up to Jesus, and questioning his authority to do the things that he is doing; John makes it clear that they are referring to his actions in scattering the livestock and overturning the tables of the moneychangers, but the synoptics imply that it is in reference to his teaching. The synoptics recount that Jesus tricked them by calling into question their own authority or allegiances.
First he asks his opponents to say whether John the baptist's authority to baptise was divine or human. They do not believe John had divine authority, and so wanting to answer that he was just baptising as a man - but this would run into conflict with the crowd, who believe in John's divine authority. Since the Temple authorities care so much about what the crowd thinks, this leaves them unable to answer truthfully, and so they are forced to claim that they don't know, exposing their divided loyalties and making them look incompetent. Jesus responds that in consequence he won't tell them what his authority is. St. ...
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A second time when asked about Roman taxes Jesus doesn't produce a Roman coin but asks his opponents to. They are able to produce one complete with its idolitrous image and blasphemous inscription. Having once again exposed his opponent's divided loyalties he responds that those who are (or that which is) Caesar's should be given to Caesar and those who are (or that which is) God's should be given to God.
The Gospel of John, which throughout presents John the Baptist as having no independent following, instead gives a quite different challenge and resolution of Jesus' authority. John recounts that Jesus was asked to perform a miraculous sign, but Jesus replies destroy this temple, and I shall raise it again in three days. The Gospel of John explains that Jesus had meant his body, and that this is what his disciples came to believe after his resurrection. The resurrection of Jesus is an event in the New Testament in which God raised him from the dead[1] after his death by crucifixion. ...
Some interpret this as an example of anti-semitism in John.[citation needed] To most scholars this shows a clear split between Judaism and the community surrounding the Gospel of John, as the suggestion that the people should destroy the temple would have been highly offensive to the Jewish people. It is also notable that John refers to the people as the Jews, distancing both the intended audience of his Gospel, and Jesus, from any Jewish roots. The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ...
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Account discrepancies The differences between John and the synoptics, particularly the fact that the synoptics have the incident at the opposite end of the narrative, has led some Christian apologists to insist that Jesus must have fought with the money changers twice, once near the beginning and once near the end of his ministry[1]. More critical scholars are inclined to instead suggest that there was only the one episode, but that John relocated the story, perhaps to imply that Jesus' arrest was for the raising of Lazarus (John 11), not the incident in the Temple (Brown et al. 954). According to the Canonical Gospels, the Ministry of Jesus began when Jesus was around 30 years old, and lasted a period of 1-3 years, with the Synoptic Gospels generally being considered to argue for it having been a period of 1 year, and the Gospel of John arguing for...
Resurrection of Lazarus by Juan de Flandes, around 1500. ...
Historical context Scholars give a variety of dates for the writing of the Gospels [citation needed] but there is consensus that they were written around the time of the Destruction of the Temple, with possibly Mark the earliest being written before the Temple's destruction and the others following it. In Mark then the historical context could inform discourse about whether Jesus' disciples were to defend the Temple as the center of Jewish religious life, or abandon it while maintaining their faith in God. The Destruction of Jerusalem (specifically, the Second Destruction of Jerusalem) was the culmination of the successful campaign of Titus Flavius against Judea after an unsuccessful attack four years prior by Cestius Gallus. ...
- When you see the desolating sacrilege set up where it ought not to be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. Mark 13:14
By the time most scholars think that John was written (c. 95-110 AD), defending the temple was a moot point because it was long gone, and so John can be understood to have been deliberately trying to portray Early Christianity itself as a replacement - a new Temple, see also New Covenant (theology). The pre-Temple-destruction community of Essenes, associated with the Dead Sea scrolls, also speaks of the community itself as a temple, and the concept was evidently one that had been circulating (Brown et al. 954). Fourth-century inscription, representing Christ as the Good Shepherd. ...
Christians believe that Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant (see Hebrews 8:6). ...
The Essenes (es-eenz) were followers of a religious way of living in Judaism that flourished from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD. Many scholars today argue that there were a number of separate but related groups that had in common mystic, eschatological, messianic, and ascetic beliefs...
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Interpretations According to the Jewish Encyclopedia article on Jesus: In the Temple The Jewish Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia originally published between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. ...
- This would appear to have been on the first day of the week and on the 10th of Nisan, when, according to the Law, it was necessary that the paschal lamb should be purchased. It is therefore probable that the entry into Jerusalem was for this purpose. In making the purchase of the lamb a dispute appears to have arisen between Jesus' followers and the money-changers who arranged for such purchases; and the latter were, at any rate for that day, driven from the Temple precincts. It would appear from Talmudic references that this action had no lasting effect, if any, for Simon ben Gamaliel found much the same state of affairs much later (Ker. i. 7) and effected some reforms (see Derenbourg in "Histoire de la Palestine," p. 527). The act drew public attention to Jesus, who during the next few days was asked to define his position toward the conflicting parties in Jerusalem. It seemed especially to attack the emoluments of the priestly class, which accordingly asked him to declare by what authority he had interfered with the sacrosanct arrangements of the Temple. In a somewhat enigmatic reply he placed his own claims on a level with those of John the Baptist — in other words, he based them on popular support.
According to Ched Myers in Binding the Strong Man - Jesus calls for an end to the entire cultic system - symbolised by his overturning of the stations used by (lepers Mark 1:44 and women Mark 5:25-34). They represented the concrete mechanisms of oppression within a political economy that doubly exploited the poor and unclean. Not only were they considered second class citizens, but the cult obliged them to make reparation, through sacrifices, for their inferior status - from which the marketers profited ... Jesus utterly repudiates the temple state, which is to say the entire socio-symbolic order of Judasim. His objections have been consistently based upon one criterion: the system's exploitation of the poor ... The "mountain" mut be "moved", not restored.
See also The foreign exchange (currency or forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. ...
I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword is one of the controversial statements reported of Jesus in the Bible. ...
The Expounding of the Law (KJV:Matthew 5:17-48), sometimes called the Antithesis of the Law, is a less well known but highly structured (Ye have heard . ...
The discourse on judgementalism, Matthew 7:1-6, follows the discourse on ostentation in the sermon on the mount. ...
Jesus vertreibt die Händler aus dem Tempel (Jesus and the Money Changers [in the Temple]) by Giovanni Paolo Pannini. ...
References - Brown, Raymond E - An Introduction to the New Testament, Doubleday (1997) ISBN 0-385-24767-2
- Brown, Raymond E - The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Prentice Hall (1990) ISBN 0-13-614934-0
- Ched Myers - Binding the Strong Man: A political reading of Mark's story of Jesus, Orbis (1988) ISBN 0-88344-620-0
- Miller, Robert J - The Complete Gospels, Polebridge Press (1994), ISBN 0-06-065587-9
Father Raymond Edward Brown, S.S., (born May 22, 1928, died of aids August 8, 1998), was an American Roman Catholic priest appointed in 1972 and in 1996 to the Pontifical Biblical Commission, which advises the pontiff on scriptural matters, and professor emeritus at the Protestant Union Theological Seminary in...
Father Raymond Edward Brown, S.S., (born May 22, 1928, died of aids August 8, 1998), was an American Roman Catholic priest appointed in 1972 and in 1996 to the Pontifical Biblical Commission, which advises the pontiff on scriptural matters, and professor emeritus at the Protestant Union Theological Seminary in...
External links - A Christian explanation of allegedly violent events in Jesus' life, including the clearing of the Temple
- Jewish Encyclopedia: Jesus: In the Temple
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