I guess I could read John to understand the context.
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ajmaxwell@lemmy.world 12 hours agoYou bet your ass he did.
When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.
robocall@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Rugnjr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
He’s mad that people are selling stuff in the temple when it should be holy (and commercial activity is NOT holy)
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
It wasn’t just commercial activity. Money changers were charging a fee to buy shekels which people could use to buy an animal to sacrifice at the temple. Jesus was mad because the idea of inserting yourself as a middleman to extort money from people seeking salvation was basically blasphemy.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 8 hours ago
Also lots of “well, you’re animal isn’t really pure enough. But you’re in luck because we happen to have a few High Priest Certified^tm^ animals right over here. We’ll just take yours on trade and you can pay the difference!” (then resell the perfectly good sacrificial animal to the next poor pilgrim who comes along)
dvlsg@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Supposedly he took hours to make the whip. Plenty of time to premeditate on that destruction.