45 And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”
47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.
(Luke 19)
This is the next paragraph after the one we looked at yesterday, where Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem. I wasn't planning to talk about it, but it jumped off the page. Jesus was not rioting here, tearing up something that did not belong to Him just to be destructive. The temple was the place of God's presence where He would meet with His people. You might say Jesus was in His own home. The court He "cleansed" was the one where Gentiles could come to worship, but was too crowded to access, so He was only removing what did not belong there. And He did not destroy, hurt people and run. He stayed all week, every day, coming back to share the truth. He came to restore, not to destroy.
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