2006-08-11 17:46:21 · 20 answers · asked by kelleygaither2000 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe that was part of the reason.it's also because He requires a Holy house the physical place of worship as well as our bodies. His spirit that dwells within us it's a call to Holy living.A call to Holy living in both temples.Because there's a physical Temple i.e. the church.Then there's our Bodies which are considered His temple,a dwelling place for His spirit.At the time the people of Jerusalem, His home town wouldn't accept Him.They were professing one thing with thier mouths while thier actions told something entirely different.Mark11 and Jer.7:11. I hope that helps Blessings VIJ
2006-08-11 18:12:37 · answer #1 · answered by VIJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
History tells us that the system was dishonest. The priests had sold the rights to sell in the temple area and would often accept an inferior animal purchased there while rejecting a perfect animal from elsewhere.
Only Jewish coins were accepted in the offering, so you had "money changers" who robbed the people that traveled to Jerusalem to worship by paying much less than the true exchange rate. Since the people didn't really have a choice, they were at the mercy of a crooked system. Jesus chasing the animals out and turning over the tables was an attack against the authority of the crooked priests who had set this system up and were getting rich from it.
A very common misunderstanding on the passage is that the whip was used to drive animals away, not the vendors. John 2:15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables... The "all" is identified as sheep and cattle.
2006-08-12 00:52:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason Jesus got upset at the money changers was because they were ripping off the Jews. They were charging far more than they were supposed to for the sacrifices needed for the Jews so they could be forgiven from their sins. The extra money that the money changers had went into their own pockets and to the high priests. Jesus knew this and turned the tables, literally, and cast out the moneychangers and said that His house would not be made a house of thieves.
2006-08-12 00:54:58 · answer #3 · answered by matrix_fister 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They dirtied the temple with the worries of money. Remember, these people were agents of the Romans and represented all that was evil within the Jewish Temple system. The money changers are dirty from dealing with mortal sins within the temple.
2006-08-12 00:50:03 · answer #4 · answered by csharp_wannabe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's one of the reasons. He said it was a "den of thieves". Interestingly enough, you had to have a certain type of coin to purchase in the temple. If you didn't have that coin, you had to change money from what you did have. Of course, the people in the temple, the money exchangers, would exact usurious rates.
On top of that, yes, they were buying and selling in the house of the Lord.
So...commerce in the house of God and people cheating others for their own gain...that made Jesus very angry.
2006-08-12 00:49:43 · answer #5 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Temple is a holy place . If you were Jesus, how would you if the Temple is used to sell things , huh ?
2006-08-12 03:55:28 · answer #6 · answered by Nathan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The temples had lost their meanings as to house of worship...they had become 'stores' to make money in...not terribly different than churches today. When I can go into a church where a collection plate is NOT passed, perhaps I will sit down and listen to the message....until then, no way, Jose!
2006-08-12 00:50:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
they weren't just "money changers" they were making profits off people and doing business, something VERY unholy, in the temple.
2006-08-12 00:57:14 · answer #8 · answered by Hank 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the Temple is a place of Worship not a place of commerse.
2006-08-12 00:56:07 · answer #9 · answered by Geoff C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had changed worship into a business. He drove them out in order to show that they were not doing what was correct.
Worship should not be based on money.
He was showing that we shouldn't be doing it either today.
But we are.
Worship and money should not be together.
2006-08-12 00:58:23 · answer #10 · answered by chris p 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋