05.09.2014 New Testament: John 2.13–16

To read the Bible in a year, read John 2 on May 9, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

Once a year in a special way, the Lord wanted Israel to remember their deliverance from Egypt, but some of the Jews saw a business opportunity instead,

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” (John 2.13–16).

Jesus did not take well to the desecration of the Passover at the temple by people who only saw it as an opportunity to make money. How often in the Gospels do you see Jesus so acting? He only does it one other time, and it was for the same purpose at the same place!

Let us have the heart of Jesus in honoring the things of God.