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frogmarch

(12,234 posts)
6. Yep, I think that's just who they are.
Sat Oct 17, 2015, 04:39 PM
Oct 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple


The cleansing of the Temple narrative tells of Jesus expelling the money changers from the Temple, and occurs in all four canonical gospels of the New Testament.
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Jesus is stated to have visited the Temple in Jerusalem, Herod's Temple, where the courtyard is described as being filled with livestock and the tables of the money changers, who changed the standard Greek and Roman money for Jewish and Tyrian money.[1] Jerusalem was packed with Jews who had come for Passover, perhaps numbering 300,000 to 400,000 pilgrims.[5][6]

And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade."[Jn 2:13–16]

"And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."

— Matthew 21:12–13

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I've called it "kicking the Republicans out of his church." Warpy Oct 2015 #1
haha, I think he would if he frogmarch Oct 2015 #7
That's Hilarious! Leith Oct 2015 #2
Me too! frogmarch Oct 2015 #8
I'm going to have to remember that one! Ron Obvious Oct 2015 #3
I know a lot of WWJDers, so frogmarch Oct 2015 #9
could those people be the moneychangers? RussBLib Oct 2015 #4
Well, Curmudgeoness Oct 2015 #5
He was indeed. All I've ever done frogmarch Oct 2015 #10
Yep, I think that's just who they are. frogmarch Oct 2015 #6
That story doesn't make much sense. onager Oct 2015 #14
This story always directs me to the "inerrancy" of the Bible Brainstormy Oct 2015 #11
In other words: Resort to violence to back up your beliefs. Binkie The Clown Oct 2015 #12
Lol! beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #13
Well, this was different for Facebook. AlbertCat Oct 2015 #15
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