#cleansing of the temple

[phoukanamedpookie]

If you've ever used that story of Jesus whipping moneylenders from the Temple as a meme, read, internalize, and reblog.

#cleansing of the temple #Christianity #antisemitism #jumblr #if I never see that meme again #pookie is jewish

[tri-ciclo]

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple. El Greco

#el greco #cleansing of the temple

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"On the Cleansing of the Temple: Of course, that scene is hardly believable: the temple grounds were enormous, occupying many acres (the temple as a whole occupied nearly forty acres, and a large portion of that, at least ten acres, was devoted to public space), extensively populated (there would have been _hundreds_ of merchants and moneychangers there), and heavily guarded by an armed force deployed to prevent just this sort of thing. They would have *killed Jesus on the spot*. So the story is obviously fiction even on that point alone.”

-- Richard Carrier, “On the Historicity of Jesus”

Even the mundane, non-magical claims in the bible are wrong. To get even the basics wrong but still insist that the extraordinary, supernatural claims are true is delusional.

#Richard Carrier #christianity #bible #bible study #jesus christ #On the Historicity of Jesus #Cleansing of the Temple #Clearing the Temple #historical fiction #origin of the bible #historicity of jesus #myth of jesus #religion #religion is a mental illness

[mayans-mc]

Mayans MC gif meme → 4 quotes [4/4]: "Let my blood be the last!" (... and then it wasn't) - EZ in Cleansing of the Temple, 4x01.

#mayans mc #mayansmcedit #ez reyes #ezekiel reyes #jd pardo #cleansing of the temple #4x01 #canche #obispo losa #bishop losa #gilly lopez #angel reyes #my edits #mayans mc gif meme

[friarmusings]

A Final Thought

The scholar Gail R. O’Day provides us with a final thought [John in the New Interpreter’s Bible, Volume 9, ed. Leander E. Keck (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1996) p.545] John 2:13–22 is popularly interpreted as an example of Jesus’ anger and hence his humanity. Jesus’ actions of taking the whip, herding out the animals, and overturning the tables are pointed to as evidence that Jesus could get…

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#3rd Lent #cleansing of the temple

[thatswhatsushesaid]

Was Nie Mingjue qi deviating when he insulted JGY's mom, pushed him down the stairs, and tried to cut off his head? Bc those do not seem like the actions of a reasonable and just man in his right mind, but I've seen some people defending that bit recently and I wanted to check (I don't own the book, otherwise I would have looked myself lol)

- yunmeng-jiang

i'm really glad i haven't seen the posts defending nmj's conduct on the staircase lol. man. okay:

nmj is not qi deviating during that scene in the novel, no. jgy doesn't begin playing turmoil for nie mingjue until after the confrontation on the staircase (and i am not interested in relitigating this discourse again, anyone else who may see this and feel inclined to argue with me). so while i definitely feel that nmj's continued cultivation with baxia has influenced and more deeply entrenched his hatred and distrust of jgy, he is not qi deviating in that moment. his qi deviation happens at the martial conference about two to three months later, if i recall the timeline as laid out in the empathy flashback + wangxian's conversation with lan xichen.

which makes it worse in some respects, doesn't it. 😕

#asks answered #there was some good discussion last year around how jgy might have managed to blend turmoil into cleansing #without actually deploying spiritual power when playing the turmoil component until after the staircase #we know that jgs wanted jgy to get rid of nmj because jgy confirms this for us during the guanyin temple confrontation #but we also know from wwx that cleansing was actually working as it should have when jgy was playing it for nmj #so i tend to think it's possible that jgy prepared the blended music Just In Case he couldn't get da-ge to back off #of wanting to see xue yang executed #but then The Staircase Incident happened and. well. #we all know the rest #mdzs meta #he did crimes??? good for him 😌 #nie meangjue 🤯

[humusboii2thereturnoftheking]

On the right, a Jewish Israeli policewoman. On the left, Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian activist who's advocated for the slaughter of Jews.

Next time someone tells you Jews are European you're welcome to show them this photo and remind them over half the Jews in Israel are Middle Eastern or North African.

#israel #islam #temple mount #al aqsa mosque #jewish #muslim #colonization #freegazafromhamas #hamasisisis #palestine #leftism #politics #israel palestine conflict #israel hamas conflict #middle east #usa #america #jerusalem #west bank #gaza #genocide #apartheid #ethnic cleansing #holocaust #ww2 #hotels #beaches #Hamas #misinformation #disinformation

[wecanbeperfect]

JESUS CLEANSES THE TEMPLE

John 2:15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

THE TEMPLE OF GOD

1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

#Time to cleanses our temples #Body of Christ #Believers #Jesus Christ #A More Perfect Tabernacle #The Son of God #We must repent

[news4dzhozhar]

Literally undermining Al Aqsa & now blocking Muslims from accessing the mosque during Ramadan, refusing Christians and Catholics access to church for Palm Sunday (and likely Easter as well) and no one makes a peep. The smallest of the 3 religions that hold Jerusalem sacred are in control by military force and no one sees a problem? I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone sometimes.

#ramadan #checkpoints #palm sunday #easter #jerusalem #al aqsa mosque #undermining #cultural and religious destruction #apartheid #save palestine #ethnic cleansing #israel is an apartheid state #seek truth #free palestine 🇵🇸 #genocide #illegal occupation #israel is committing genocide #israeli war crimes #stolen land #stolen heritage #sacred site #Jerusalem #temple mount #west bank #jewish voices for peace #spread awareness #share #save al aqsa #israel is a terrorist state #intentional destruction of religious sites makes Israel no better than Isis

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Carl Heinrich Bloch (Danish, 1834 - 1890) Jesus cleansing the Temple, 1874

#carl heinrich bloch #carl bloch #art #danish #jesus #jesus christ #fine art #christian art #european art #God The Son #jesus cleansing the temple #danish art #denmark #the bible #christian #christianity #Christendom

[fresh-bag-of-ham]

after seeing the trailer at the local movie theatre for the past 8 months, last night we finally saw the broadway touring production of jesus christ superstar. and then came home and immediately put on the movie because we could not understand a single word of singing and the production's storytelling was completely incomprehensible

#watching the film having epiphanies like OH omg the props in that scene were supposed to be palm fronds... because it was palm sunday... #and the nondescript modern dancing was them entering jerusalem... and jesus throwing a mic stand was cleansing the temple.....

[stoertebeker]

Christ Cleansing the Temple by Luca Giordano // The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis

#yeah i'm not normal about this. never will be #luca giordano #christ cleansing the temple #the last days of judas iscariot #stephen adly guirgis #🐟 #jesus christ #judas iscariot #christianity

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

The Triumphal Entry

As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent out two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt beside her. Untie them and bring them to Me. If anyone questions you, tell him that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away.”

This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:

“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ”

So the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and laid their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them.

A massive crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

The crowds that went ahead of Him and those that followed were shouting:

“Hosanna to the Son of David!”

“Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”

“Hosanna in the highest!”

When Jesus had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”

The crowds replied, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”

Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves. And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

The blind and the lame came to Him at the temple, and He healed them. But the chief priests and scribes were indignant when they saw the wonders He performed and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David!”

“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked.

“Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read:

‘From the mouths of children and infants

You have ordained praise’?”

Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where He spent the night.

In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, He was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.

When the disciples saw this, they marveled and asked, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?”

“I will also ask you one question,” Jesus replied, “and if you answer Me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. What was the source of John’s baptism? Was it from heaven or from men?”

They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ But if we say, ‘From men,’ we are afraid of the people, for they all regard John as a prophet.” So they answered, “We do not know.”

And Jesus replied, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’

‘I will not,’ he replied. But later he changed his mind and went.

Then the man went to the second son and told him the same thing.

‘I will, sir,’ he said. But he did not go.

Which of the two did the will of his father?”

“The first,” they answered.

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in a righteous way and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.

Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit. But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.

Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’ So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”

“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”

When the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they knew that Jesus was speaking about them. Although they wanted to arrest Him, they were afraid of the crowds, because the people regarded Him as a prophet. — Matthew 21 | The Reader’s Bible (BRB) The Reader’s Bible © 2020 by Bible Hub and Berean Bible. All rights Reserved. Cross References: Genesis 4:24; Exodus 30:12; Genesis 49:11; Leviticus 1:14; Ruth 1:19; 2 Samuel 14:7; 2 Kings 9:13; Psalm 8:2; Psalm 118:22; Psalm 118:26; Proverbs 26:5; Song of Solomon 8:11; Isaiah 5:1-2; Isaiah 5:3; Isaiah 8:14; Isaiah 28:13; Isaiah 28:16; Isaiah 56:7; Isaiah 62:11; Jeremiah 7:11; Jeremiah 8:13; Jeremiah 26:8; Jeremiah 37:15; Matthew 4:28; Matthew 7:7; Matthew 8:10-11; Matthew 9:27; Matthew 11:9; Matthew 11:25; Matthew 13:3; Matthew 16:7; Matthew 17:20; Matthew 20:24; Matthew 20:34; Matthew 22:4; Matthew 26:6; Matthew 26:55; Mark 11:1; Mark 11:7-8; Mark 11:12; Mark 11:20; Mark 11:23; Mark 11:27; Mark 12:1-2; Luke 20:5; Luke 20:16; John 7:30; 1 John 3:22

#Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem #Jesus Cleanses the Temple #Jesus curses the fig tree #The Authority of Jesus Questioned #the Parable of the Two sons #The Parable of the Wicked Tenants #Matthew 21 #Gospel of Matthew #New Testament #BRB #The Reader's Bible #Bible Hub #Berean Bible

[pin-striped-soup]

photo: Christ Cleansing the Temple, by Carl Heinrich Bloch

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During Jesus’s time in Jerusalem, He visited the temple. There inside His Father’s holy house, Jesus saw various merchants doing business. He was appalled to see a sacred place of worship being desecrated and turned into “a den of thieves” (Matthew 21:13). Speaking with unmistakable authority, He commanded the merchants and moneychangers to leave.

Jesus Christ invites us to worship and learn of Him in modern-day temples. Russell M. Nelson taught:

Let us never lose sight of what the Lord is doing for us now. He is making His temples more accessible. He is accelerating the pace at which we are building temples. He is increasing our ability to help gather Israel. He is also making it easier for each of us to become spiritually refined. I promise that increased time in the temple will bless your life in ways nothing else can. (“Focus on the Temple,” Liahona, Nov. 2022, 121)

Read and Ponder

Matthew 21:12–16

Mark 11:15–18

#Easter Week #Christ Cleansing the Temple #Christ cleans the Temple

[byfaithmedia]

On the Day of Pentecost, the first Christian converts were baptised around the Temple and the Mikvehs would have been used.

#WalktheBible #Mikveh #Temple #Pentecost #ChristianBaptism #Baptism #SecondTemple #FirstTemple #TempleMount #Jerusalem #Israel #VisitIsrael #holyland #RitualCleansing #Cleansing #Archaeology #BibleArchaeology #BiblicalArchaeology #ChristianPilgrimage #ChristianTraveller #DiscoverIsrael #Jesus #History #AncientHistory #JesusWalkedHere #bibletravel #christiantravel #israelinstagram #israeltrip #instaisrael

[friarmusings]

Clarity

This coming Sunday is the 3rd Sunday in Lent.  21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the scripture and the word Jesus had spoken. Continue reading Clarity

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