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Matthew 21:12
Matthew
Now we find that He cleanses the temple.
He did this twice.
One cleansing was at the beginning of His ministry and one again at the end of His ministry.
And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting [John 2:14].
They were selling animals and selling doves and changing money.
It is quite interesting that they would not accept any kind of money except the temple money there; no other kind could be used or offered.
So they had an exchange place, and they made a good profit by making the exchange of coins.
When I came back from Venezuela some time ago, I came back with some Venezuelan money that I wanted to get rid of because I couldn’t spend it here.
There was an exchange place in the airport, and I went up there and told them that I wanted to change it for American money.
Believe me, friend, I didn’t get as much as when I made the trade the other way around; that is, exchanging American money for the Venezuelan money.
Now that is the way they did here at the temple, you see.
Why did they have such a system?
Why did they do this?
Because they were making religion easy.
They would take the Roman coinage, which had an effigy of Caesar and the imprint of paganism on it, and they would exchange that for Jewish coinage which could be used in the temple.
So they were there for the convenience of the worshipers.
Also, they changed large coins into smaller ones.
Not only did they make religion easy, but they also made religion cheap.
I recognize that we ought not to overemphasize money in the church and should not beg, but I’ll tell you something that is more intolerable than that.
Some people treat the church and the cause of Christ as something so cheap that at times it becomes necessary to sound an alarm.
They were also selling animals.
There was a lot of traffic in those sacrificial animals.
It was work and expense to raise those sheep and oxen, and somebody would have to do it for a price.
It was very easy for all this to become a religious racket.
Today we have that problem with us also.
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;
And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up [John 2:15–17].
I tell you, the Lord was rough.
There is no question about that.
I don’t like the pictures we have of an anemic–looking Christ.
The artists don’t seem to realize who He was.
The disciples remembered the verse from Psalm 69:9.
This psalm is quoted seventeen times in the New Testament and is one of the six most quoted psalms in the New Testament.
It is quoted again in John 15:25 and 19:28–29.
The other psalms which are frequently quoted are Psalms 2, 22, 89, 110, and 118.
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up [John 2:18–19].
The word that He used for destroy is luo which means “to untie.”
He is, of course, referring to His own human body.
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
[John 2:20].
The temple at that time was Herod’s temple.
It was still in the process of being built, and it had already been under construction for forty–six years.
There is a specific use of words in the Greek here that I want you to see.
In verses 14 and 15, when it tells of Jesus cleansing the temple, the word used for temple is hieron which refers to the temple as a whole.
Specifically, it was the outer court of the temple which Jesus cleansed.
The word Jesus uses in verse 19 and the Jews repeat in verse 20 is naos which refers to the inner sanctuary of the temple.
This word can also be used in reference to the body as Paul does in 1 Corinthians 6:19 when he says that the holy place today is not a temple made with hands but that our body is the temple (naos) of the Holy Spirit.
The Jews were asking the Lord whether He really meant that He would destroy this temple, but, of course, our Lord meant the temple of His body.
But he spake of the temple of his body [John 2:21].
Jesus said that if they destroyed this temple, He would “raise it up.”
The word He used was egeiroµ, which John uses five times in his Gospel.
Its actual meaning is “to wake up” and, each time the word is used, it refers to awaking from the dead.
Paul used the same word in his sermon in Antioch of Pisidia where he used it four times.
It refers to the resurrection of Christ, and it refers to the resurrection of believers also.
It is used in reference to the restoration to life of Lazarus.
It was a “waking up.”
That is the picture which we have in this word egeiroµ.
That is precisely what He meant when He spoke of the temple of His body.
But His disciples didn’t understand that, and it was not until after His resurrection that they recalled it and referred to it.
THE SECOND CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves [Matt.
21:12–13].
That is very strong language, is it not?
Now let me call your attention to certain facts regarding the so–called triumphal entry.
First of all, I do not think that “triumphal” entry is the proper name for it because, as we have seen, only certain portions of Zechariah’s prophecy were fulfilled.
Our Lord came into the city of Jerusalem in order that He might be the Savior.
He was making the final public presentation of Himself to the people.
When you consider the four Gospel records together, they present a composite picture.
The obvious conclusion is that He did not enter the city on only one day but on three separate days.
The first time was on Saturday, the Sabbath Day.
There were no money changers on that day, and He looked around and left, “And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve” (Mark 11:11).
He entered as Priest.
The second day He entered Jerusalem was on Sunday, the first day of the week.
The money changers were there, and He cleansed the temple (vv.
12–13).
On this day He entered as King.
The third day He entered Jerusalem was on Monday, the second day of the week.
At that time He wept over Jerusalem, then entered the temple and taught and healed (see Luke 19:41–44, 47–48).
He entered as a Prophet that day.
As we compare these three records in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, it becomes apparent that they record three different entries, and I believe that our Lord entered Jerusalem on three consecutive days and in three consecutive roles—as Priest, as King, as Prophet.
And He retired each day to Bethany.
Apparently, He did not spend the night in the city until He was arrested.
Remember that the so–called triumphal entry ended at the cross.
But He will come the second time in triumph.
The writer to the Hebrews puts this together in a wonderful way: “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation” (Heb.
9:28).
We are told in Zechariah 14:4 that when He comes the next time to this earth, His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives—that’s where He will touch down.
Then when He enters the city of Jerusalem, that will be the triumphal entry!
I cannot call these three entries into Jerusalem triumphal entries because He is on His way to the Cross to die for your sin and my sin.
After the Lord cleansed the temple, many came to Him for help:
And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them [Matt.
21:14].
Notice how Matthew emphasizes the fact that multitudes of folk were healed.
And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased [Matt.
21:15].
They resented it.
And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say?
And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there [Matt.
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