SO THEY CAME TO JERUSALEM. THEN JESUS WENT INTO THE TEMPLE AND BEGAN TO DRIVE OUT THOSE WHO BOUGHT AND SOLD IN THE TEMPLE, AND OVER- TURNED THE TABLES OF THE MONEY CHANGERS, AND THE SEATS OF THOSE WHO SOLD DOVES. ( MARK 11:15 ) Often the inflated exchange rate enriched the money changers, and the exorbitant prices of animals made the merchants wealthy. Further, their stalls were set up in the Temples Court of the Gentiles, frustrating the intentions of the Non-Jews who had come to worship God as well. ( see ISAIAH 56:6-7 ) For; THEN JESUS TAUGHT, SAYING TO THEM, IS IT NOT WRITTEN, MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS? BUT YOU HAVE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES. AND THE SCRIBES AND CHIEF PRIESTS HEARD IT AND SOUGHT HOW THE MIGHT DESTROY HIM; FOR THEY FEARED HIM, BECAUSE ALL THE PEOPLE WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS TEACHING. ( MARK 11:17-18 ) FOR INDEED CHRIST, OUR PASSOVER, WAS SACRIFICED FOR US. THEREFORE LET US KEEP THE FEAST. The feast of the Passover or Easter Day that is indeed. ( 1 CORINTHIANS 5:7 )
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