12 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 benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them,
"'My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it 'a den of robbers.
In church, I keep pointing out how everyone “nice-washes” Jesus.
That’s why no one likes you.
I like them. You I could do without.
Jesus was a radical who ruffled so many feathers they killed him.
I come not to bring peace, but a sword.
🤣 maybe
What’s the bit about how long it takes to braid a whip?
Yeah!
Somebody broke down that process, what it’s actually like. Jesus was sitting there, cold and calculated, for multiple hours, and then strolled into the temple.
It wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment knee-jerk reaction. There was time and intentionality behind it.