There is one time where he drove
merchants out of the temple but he did not hurt them or put them in jail or cut their heads off or beat them or stone them.
Jesus sure didn't seem inclusive when He called the Pharisees a brood of vipers or drove
the merchants out of the temple.
«This is the man who broke the Sabbath in the terms of the times, the man who was called a glutton and a wine dipper, who feasted with publicans and sinners, who took a whip and drove
the merchants out of the temples.
And maybe his language when throwing
merchants out of the temple was altered by the more civil Greek Christians to protect their more cultured ears.
Not exact matches
declares that the important moment in the life
of Jesus came with his «seizure and occupation
of the
temple in Jerusalem... the essential point is that Jesus drives
out the priests, the
merchants, and holds the Roman garrison [Roman indeed!]
When he got there, he found the
temple full
of merchants and money changers, and so he made a whip
out of cords and cleansed the
temple (John 2:13 - 22).