Tuesday: Matthew 21:23-27, Mark 11:27-33, Luke 20:1-8 And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, “by what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?” Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, from where did it come?” From heaven or from man? And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘from heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why, then did you not believe him?’…
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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…