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    Passion Week Devotions: Jesus Clears the Temple

      Monday And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money – changers  and the seats of those who sold pigeons.  He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called  a house of prayer,”  but you make it a den of robbers.”  Matthew 21: 12-13 Mark 11: 15-18, Luke 19: 45-48 The temple had become a modern-day vendor or farmers market.  However, the people set up shop in the temple.  To Jesus this was an ungodly activity to do in the temple.  He went in and  cleansed it.  This kind of activity in the…