No because he’s just thrown the traders out of the temple courts. Tables over, coins everywhere, the dove sellers’ benches knocked flying. Said this is meant to be a house of prayer for all nations and they’ve turned it into a den of robbers.
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I work here.
I work in the temple in Jerusalem. That Passover week I saw more there than in all my years before it.
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The chief priests are livid. But they can’t touch him. The crowds hang on his every word.
A man just came into the temple with a bag of silver, trying to give it back to the chief priests. Kept saying he’d sinned. That the man he’d handed over was innocent.
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They told him: what’s that got to do with us? That’s your problem. So he threw the coins down in the temple and walked out.
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Just heard. He went off and hanged himself.
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Now the chief priests don’t know what to do with the coins. It’s blood money, so it can’t go in the treasury. They’re buying the potter’s field with it, to bury foreigners in.
The curtain in the temple. The huge one. It’s just torn in two. Top to bottom.