Monday- April 2nd Temple Clearing Mark 11:15-17

We often picture Jesus as this mild mannered guy who went around saying cliché things. We often rob Him of his dignity and his masculinity. Jesus said hard things, and he called people out on sin on multiple occasions. Mild-mannered is not a word I would use to describe Jesus. We can definitely see that in this passage. People are buying and selling, and exchanging currencies in the temple. The temple was supposed to be a holy place where people came to worship God, but now as Jesus says in verse 13 “but you make it a den of robbers.” Jesus violently runs out the people buying selling things in the temple, this of course upsets people, and offends others, but it was the right thing to do.