Sentences with phrase «temple money changers»

If Jesus only lived by love a selflessness, as you envision it being, then why did he turn over the tables of the temple money changers?

What difference is their between the imperial tax collector and the temple money changer, both are thieves?

Not exact matches

Jesus would be FURIOUS with our GOP and insurance firms... the modern day version of money changers in the temple whose only intent is to fatten themselves off the pain of others while denying millions of people the dignity of good health.

15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers» money, and overthrew the tables;

The first action shown is the expulsion of the money - changers from the temple, an act which stirs up the merchants against Christ.

If you read the Gospels, he overturned the money changers in the temple of God's people, not the idols of Rome.

He was anti establishment, going so far to scare out the money changers from the temple.

Christ beat up the money - changers in the temple, and came not to bring peace, He distinctly said, but a sword.»

Why do you see them selling stuff in church did Christ not say to the money changers my temple should be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.

I doubt that is how the money - changers in the temple experienced him.

The temples had merchants selling animals for sacrifice and money changers.

Anyone that thinks Santorum is «spiritual» is as crazy as Santorum is and a Hypocrite (in the very definition Jesus used when calling out to the money changers in a temple)

He is all about profit, a money - changer in the temple if there ever was one.

I guess you don't remember the one about the money changers in the temple.

Healthcare for kids and banking reform sound a lot like «if you do for the least of these you do unto me» and throwing the money changers out of the temple.

Jesus had anger and He cleansed the temple of the money - changers.

But he who healed the sick, who denounced in scathing language injustice and oppression, who drove the money changers from the temple, certainly did not mean that his followers should do nothing and say nothing against wrong.

He saw the mess in the temple with the money changers and it disturbed him.

His act of clearing the temple of money - changers upset the priests.

He drove out the officials who sold purified birds for animal sacrifices and the money - changers who exchanged (at a good profit for the priests) the popular Roman money for the Jewish coin which alone could be used for the temple dues.

Are there money changers in your temples (for when members need to rent the proper clothing).

He «cleansed» the Temple, enforcing the law by chasing out the money - changers and the pigeon - sellers while the temple police just watched, unable or unwilling to stop him.

He transforms the world as he dies upon the cross, even as he transforms it in expelling the money - changers from the temple.

Probably the same way that Christ reconciled going into the temple and kicking out all of the corrupt money changers.

In an effort to defend your scripturally flawed and biased view of Jesus you are actually maintaining that Jesus» twice cleansing of the temple (with no one having the courage to try and stop him even though there were Temple guards present), as well as His use of a «leather whip», and «knocking over» the money changer's tables, is not a use of «violent» force — ludicrous.

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).

In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money - changers seated at their tables.

He angrily turned over the money - changer's tables in the temple and drove them out, telling them they have made His father's house a «den of theives.»

And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money - changers and the seats of those who sold doves; and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.

Our Lord, Jesus Christ, was a humble man who preached kindness and goodness, caring for one another, being merciful and forgiving and did not wear armanis and he did not tolerate false prophets or the money changers in the temple.

It is a question raised by the Gospel story of the cleansing of the temple, in which Jesus uses strong - arm tactics on merchants and money changers.

Jesus ran the money changers out of the temple because they were doing business IN the temple, not because they were doing business however wrong.

If you are referring to the money changers, remember jesus was a jew when he threw them out of the temple and when he berated the pharisees for their wrongs.

There was a reason Jesus expelled the money changers from the temple.

Perhaps it was the enthusiasm of Galilean pilgrims, who hailed him as Messiah as he entered the city, which called Jesus to the unfavorable notice of the Roman authorities; perhaps it was Jesus» own act of driving money - changers from the temple courts; perhaps it was the bringing of charges against him by powerful Jewish groups whom he had offended.

There is only one instance in the whole New Testament in which Jesus gets violently angry, and it's when He encounters the money changers in the temple.

Furthermore, «those [scholars] who write about Jesus» desire to return the Temple to its «original,» «true» purpose, the «pure» worship of God, seem to forget that the principal function of any temple is to serve as a place for sacrifice, and that sacrifices require the supply of suitable animals» and, by implication, money - changers to facilitate their sale.

Jesus drove out the money changers in his temple.

«nd Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.»

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.

Also following this story of the widow, Jesus goes into the temple with a whip and clears out the money changers.

The money changers in the temple were Hebrews.

The GOP need to pack up and leave: «Jesus upset the apple cart when he chased Rome's money changers and tax collectors from the temple, that was reason enough for Rome to arrest him and execute him» um have you read the bible at all?

Would he give speeches at the christian book sellers convention that more resembles the money changers of the temple, or would he have a television show sitting on a golden throne surrounded by a shimmering gold set?

Christ, God in the flesh, to Christians, took a whip to drive the money changers away from the walls of the great temple in Jerusalem.

What would Jesus do??? He threw the money changers out of the temple and helped the poor.

What comes to mind is Jesus throwing the money changers out of the temple in anger.

But Christ is all about whipping the money changers out of the temple.

(Matt 15:1 - 11) When seeing the temple being used like business, Jesus made a whip from rope, and ran out those with sheep and cattle and «poured out the coins of the money changers», telling them: «Take these things away from her!

Rather it is a time to drive the money - changers out of the temple.»