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12 After this He went down to aCapernaum, He, His mother, bHis brothers, and His disciples; and they did not stay there many days.  

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

13 aNow the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  
14 aAnd He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers1 doing business.  
15 When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.
16 And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make aMy Father’s house a house of merchandise!”  
17 Then His disciples remembered that it was written, a“Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.”  
18 So the Jews answered and said to Him, a“What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?”  
19 Jesus answered and said to them, a“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”  
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John 2:14

John 2:14 Found in the temple. In the Court of the Gentiles, which was within the temple walls. Those that sold oxen and sheep and doves. These were for the sacrifices. The great crowds who came to Jerusalem at this time could not bring victims, and the traffic in oxen, sheep, kids and doves became enormous. It would have been proper enough if it had been conducted at stockyards, but the priests made a monopoly of it and installed it right in the temple. The Court of the Gentiles, "a house of prayer for all nations" (Mark 11:15-19), was filled with cattle, ordure, and the din of traffic. The changers of money. Every Jew paid a half-shekel annually to the support of the temple (Exodus 30:13), but Gentile money was the coin in usual circulation, and this was refused at the temple. These money brokers, agents of the priests, furnished Jewish coin at a heavy charge. Edersheim says that this traffic alone cleared the priests what would be equivalent to about $300,000 a year.




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