Jesus Cleanses the Temple
Gospel According to John
1.13-25.
"The passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves and the money changers seated at their tables.Making a whip of cords,he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle.He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.He told those who were selling the doves," take these things out of here!Stop making my Father's house a market place!"His disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for your house will consume me".The Jews said to him,"What sign can you show us for doing these things?'Jesus answered them" Destroy these temple and in three days I will raise it up "The Jews then said,"This temple has been under construction for forty-six years and will you raise it up in three years?"But he was speaking of the temple of his body.After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this:and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
When he was in Jerusalem during the passover festival many believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing.But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them because he knew all people and needed no one to testify about anyone;for he himself knew what was in everyone."
Here we find Jesus cleansing the temple converted into a market place.We may take the symbolic interpretation that our own bodies are converted into places of greed, dishonesty, selfishness, inordinate desires, gluttony craving for wealth and luxury.This marketplace like mind of us has to be purged of all impurities that have settled in our thoughts and feelings.All these are against the true Spirit of God.The Spirit of God is Peace and Love and the absence of all absolute negatives and evil practices.God has created us to be united with him in Love and Peace and with a mind that is Christ-like , full of compassion and union with God.But man in his arrogance has disobeyed God and decided to pursue his own path.God did not object to this because he created human beings with free will and free determinations.God is still after human beings searching him and trying to bring him back into His fold.
1.13-25.
"The passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves and the money changers seated at their tables.Making a whip of cords,he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle.He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.He told those who were selling the doves," take these things out of here!Stop making my Father's house a market place!"His disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for your house will consume me".The Jews said to him,"What sign can you show us for doing these things?'Jesus answered them" Destroy these temple and in three days I will raise it up "The Jews then said,"This temple has been under construction for forty-six years and will you raise it up in three years?"But he was speaking of the temple of his body.After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this:and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
When he was in Jerusalem during the passover festival many believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing.But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them because he knew all people and needed no one to testify about anyone;for he himself knew what was in everyone."
Here we find Jesus cleansing the temple converted into a market place.We may take the symbolic interpretation that our own bodies are converted into places of greed, dishonesty, selfishness, inordinate desires, gluttony craving for wealth and luxury.This marketplace like mind of us has to be purged of all impurities that have settled in our thoughts and feelings.All these are against the true Spirit of God.The Spirit of God is Peace and Love and the absence of all absolute negatives and evil practices.God has created us to be united with him in Love and Peace and with a mind that is Christ-like , full of compassion and union with God.But man in his arrogance has disobeyed God and decided to pursue his own path.God did not object to this because he created human beings with free will and free determinations.God is still after human beings searching him and trying to bring him back into His fold.
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