04/09/2020
The Gospel of John 2:13-25
What are we doing to standup for the truth and just in our comminities today?
In the next verses we sense the beginning of Jesus' public, and controversial, action. He and His disciples left Galilee and came up to Jerusalem. Though He deliberately violated the manmade religious traditions of the Pharisees, our Lord obeyed the statutes of the Law and, in obedience to it, went up to observe the passover... In His life and death, He fulfilled the Law so that today, believers are not burdened by that "yoke of bo***ge" Acts 15:10.
There they visited the temple and saw the money changers at work. These were businessmen who exchanged other currencies for coins minted at the temple, because the religious leaders had decreed that only temple money was acceptable to God. Smiling, the money changers inflated the rate of exchange - and probably gave the leading religious leaders their cut. Other temple businessmen sold livestock for the sacrifices. A lamb brought by a worshiper might be rejected because of some blemish when inspected by a religious leader: it had to be traded then for an animal that was "acceptable." Jesus angrily drove the traders from His Father's house.
