The Cleansing of the Temple made me cry - John 2.13-22
Watched various YouTube portrayals on Jesus' cleansing of the Temple (from John 2.13-22) and got tearful. I think the power of the story hit me a bit in the gut this morning and winded me. Didn't see that coming!
Perhaps it the sheer righteousness of Christ that is so compelling? Maybe it's His power and a sense within me that we as a species desperately need to know this power now? It could that I'm just a bit Covid knackered and want hide under the shadow of His wings.
I am betting my entire life on the same man who walked into the Temple with that message two thousand years ago.
The others then set fire to the house of Ananias the high-priest, and to the palaces of Agrippa and Bernice: after which they carried the fire to the place where the archives were reposited, and made haste to burn the contracts belonging to their creditors, and thereby to dissolve their obligations for paying their debts; and this was done in order to gain the multitude of those who had been debtors, and that they might persuade the poorer sort to join in their insurrection with safety against the more wealthy; so the keepers of the records fled away, and the rest set fire to them. Book II, 17,v6.
In other words the money changers were but a small bit industry compared to the debts that the hierarchy held over people. Sounds like Temple was acting as a religious bank. In Josephus account (AD 70) ordinary folk join the Romans in the orgy of destruction and this is the first thing they go for.
These two clips from YouTube which topped the polls.
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