12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.
“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,
“‘From the lips of children and infants
you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”
17 And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.
Yesterday, Jesus had happily rode into Jerusalem as shouts of 'Hosanna' echoed around Him. Now, on Monday, as He entered the Temple, He allowed His anger to show when He discovered the mockery that had been made of His house of prayer.
Of course, the chief priests and the teachers were there to see all this, and they took advantage of His outrage - They always took every opportunity they could to try to catch Him in a "blasphemous lie". But, like every other time Jesus had been confronted by the Pharisees, chief priests or teachers, He maintained His dignity when He answered their questions.
And so, on this day, He walked away from them again... their plan not quite in place. But it would be just a matter of days until they were ready to take Him into custody.
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