Jesus and the temple incident?

Question

the Temple incident, is this accurate, according to the Bible:
In the Temple incident Jesus and his disciples go to the temple and found people were buying and selling goods in his temple which was a place to serve to oppress the poor. Jesus overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, out of anger that his place for prayer and to serve those in need is a “den of thieves”.
Is that correct?

Answer 1

Correct. The temple then in the old testament is a sacred place. It is where God dwell. But in the New Testament our body is the temple of God.

Answer 2

Pretty much. The Pharisees (religious leaders) were making a profit from the people who came to the temple in accordance to Jewish law to sacrifice to God. Jesus was not very happy (to say the least) that these hypocrites were making a buck from people who just wanted to serve God. Anger, in an of itself, is not evil. There are a lot of times that anger is just. It is how you handle the anger. Jesus did not throw the people on the floor, just the tables.

Don - Jesus could judge - He's God!

Answer 3

Yes, its true. Some try to use this as an example that Jesus was not perfect as they assume that this event proves that Jesus was capable of anger and violence. There is a clear distinction between the righteous anger of someone defending God (or defending God' s purpose) and a person throwing a violent tantrum (like road-rage) motivated by selfish aims.

Answer 4

Yes but I have never been able to believe that Jesus got angry. It goes against everything that he ever stood for.

Anger requires judgment. Jesus ask us not to judge.

I think this is just another case where someone wished Jesus had said or done something so they added something to help Jesus out where they thought he had made a mistake.

The bible is full of these additions by well meaning people.

love and blessings Don

Answer 5

The temple was a place to serve to "opress the poor"? Yeah, right. I'm sure that was the intention of the builders. "Let's set up a temple to opress the poor with".

Answer 6

pretty much He pointed out that merchants who interferr and get involved in religion are people who we should all be suspicious of and that God and merchants are not close, either in practice or mind set.
The fact that throughout history Christians have been led into war by merchants teaching hate and fear is really just unbelievable. Happening right now and are preachers out there telling everyone there is nothing to fear but fear itself, NO.

Merchants creep in slowly and suck the life out of laborers and the masses who want to be friends with God, everywhere. It's like a consistant theme. Jesus showed how to deal with these merchant types and we ought to be following His example and removing their influence entirely from out churches.

The reason it does not happen is simple. The teachings of accountability (for the lay persons and elders) are hidden and not taught by the merchants who have infiltrated our churches. We need to learn Mat 18 and the letters to TIM and then practice them.

Answer 7

You are right. They could of done their "swap meet" anywhere else. Choosing the temple was in bad taste. The vendors were doing it for selfish reasons (their own gain) They had no intention of helping the poor.

Answer 8

Yes you are correct, and if He were to walk into alot of meeting places today I believe He would do the exact same thing. Consider what I say. Peace.

Answer 9

Yes it is true, the story can be found in Luke 19:45-48

Answer 10

Jesus was ticked because the one place designated for his father's worship was being used as a place for people to sell things. (The equivelant of a bunch of drug dealers operating out of a church today)