That's not what the big book of heavenly horseshit says.
No, the money changers served an important purpose. Far more important than any fucking jesus!
http://plim.org/1Moneychangers%20in%20the%20Temple.htm
This is an artificial quarrel set up by the gospel writers who were doing their best to make the jews look bad.
Besides, the Court of the Gentiles was one of the outer areas of the temple and literally meant that non-jews could freely enter it.
Quote: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,’[e] but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’[f]”
Matty 21
No, the money changers served an important purpose. Far more important than any fucking jesus!
http://plim.org/1Moneychangers%20in%20the%20Temple.htm
Quote:The moneychangers served an important function within the temple. They exchanged a person's foreign coins for a fee into coins that were acceptable within the temple. In many ways they were similar to a currency translation in foreign countries where foreigners have to translate their currency for a fee into the currency of the country they are visiting.
Only the half-shekel coin of the temple was allowed as atonement money, which the priests in the temple used. Those Jews coming from foreign lands with foreign currency or those that had Roman coins had to have these coins changed by the moneychangers. This was one of the largest revenues for the temple.
This is an artificial quarrel set up by the gospel writers who were doing their best to make the jews look bad.
Besides, the Court of the Gentiles was one of the outer areas of the temple and literally meant that non-jews could freely enter it.
