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. The temple cleansing is the messianic action that the triumphal entry anticipated: the king who enters the city enters the temple and exercises his authority over it. The driving out of the money-changers and dove-sellers is not anti-commerce in principle but the prophetic judgment on the commercial enterprise that had displaced the temple's prayer function.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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