Continuing our journey through the Gospel of John
12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.
13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.14 In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!”
17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
This was not an on the spot, sporadic, overly-emotional Jesus – it probably took more than a moment to make that ‘whip of cords’. Jesus was dead serious about his anger though.
I wonder what Jesus would drive out, scatter, and overturn today?
Are there things that we do today, in his Father’s name, that would both break his heart and anger him?
Lord have mercy, and may we repent.
