95. Jesus overturns table of money chargers and merchants
Site information:
The photo above shows the excavated shops of the money chargers and merchants on the south-west wall of the temple.
The building on the left has doors of 4 shops. This structure was actually the lower base for the pathway and staircase above the road, that allowed the visitors to climb up to the temple. The shops traded money and sold offerings for the visitors to the temple mount. Is it here where Jesus overturned their tables?
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Biblical References:
Mt 21:12: "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. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased, And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"