Making way...

12 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. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,

“‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies
    you have prepared praise’?”

17 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there (Matthew 21)

Jesus cleaned house, making a way for more people to come here and be ministered to, and clearing away who and what God did not want in His house.   Here, we find more of the sick are able to come and be healed. In Luke, it is more clear that now the Gentiles could get back in the area designated for them to worship. It also toned things down so Jesus could be heard.  What do we need to "clean out" from our lives to be able to hear Jesus more clearly, see the needs of others more readily, and address the hurts and sicknesses in our own hearts?  Make way for the Lord.