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Driving of the Merchants From the Temple by Scarsellino. In the narrative, Jesus is stated to have visited the Temple in Jerusalem, where the courtyard was described as being filled with livestock, merchants, and the tables of the money changers, who changed the standard Greek and Roman money for Jewish and Tyrian shekels. [6]
[10] Miller emphasizes that "it is the love of money that is the obstacle to faith, not the money itself." [5] Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!" The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
"Den of thieves" might be a reference to extortionary pricing for the doves and money. [16] The people are amazed by Jesus and his teaching, which drives the chief priests to plot to kill him. Jesus and his group however leave the city at the end of the day. The incident with the money changers is recorded in all the Gospels.
The word "authority" (Greek: ἐξουσίᾳ, exousia) is frequently used in relation to Jesus in the New Testament. A similar episode is described in the Gospel of John at John 2:13–18) as part of the Cleansing of the Temple narrative. In John's account, after expelling the merchants and the money changers from the Temple, Jesus is confronted:
Most scholars believe that the Gospel of Mark was the first gospel and was used as a source by the authors of Matthew and Luke. [12] Mark uses the cursing of the barren fig tree to bracket and comment on the story of the Jewish temple: Jesus and his disciples are on their way to Jerusalem when Jesus curses a fig tree because it bears no fruit; in Jerusalem he drives the money-changers from the ...
The story of Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers in the Second Temple is related next. Jesus and his disciples go to Jerusalem for the " Passover of the Jews", [ 34 ] the first of three visits to Jerusalem recounted in this gospel, the others being in John 7 , [ 35 ] where he goes for the Feast of Tabernacles , and the final ...
The exceptional purity helps explain why the Jerusalem Temple priests specifically required Tyrian shekels for Temple tax payments. The money-changers referenced in the New Testament Gospels ( Matt. 21:12 and parallels) provided Tyrian shekels in exchange for Roman currency when this was required.
The books of the New Testament frequently cite Jewish scripture to support the claim of the Early Christians that Jesus was the promised Jewish Messiah.Scholars have observed that few of these citations are actual predictions in context; the majority of these quotations and references are taken from the prophetic Book of Isaiah, but they range over the entire corpus of Jewish writings.