Hi, Nora.

Hi, good morning.

I've been thinking about the time when our Lord Jesus went into the temple,

and he got very angry at the vendors in the temple.

And he reacted in a way that is not seen in any other part of the gospels.

Like he, you know, through the tables and he was with violence.

I wanted a little bit, I wanted to understand that a bit more if you could help me.

Sure.

Why don't we, why don't I quote the passage, and that way we can get a sense of it.

So this is in Matthew's Gospel.

It also appears in Mark's Gospel, too, but let's look at Matthew chapter 21.

And Jesus entered the Temple of God and drove out all those who sold and bought it in the temple.

And he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold

pigeons. He said to them, it is written, my house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it

a den of robbers. Here we see kind of the bare bones of it. I believe it's in Mark's Gospel,

where we see that he nodded cords and used them as a whip, and he drove them from the temple,

overturned the money-changing tables.

So what we see here is a human emotion on the part of Jesus, who, of course, is God.

He's a divine person, but he has a perfect human nature as well. And in his humanity,

he's expressing God's justice or God's wrath for those who do something that is contrary to

his will. And in this case, they were crassly profiting from selling and, you know, buying and

selling these things. And it was, it was an offense. And so Jesus, in his righteous indignation,

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