So, why does Jesus start throwing tables and bringing out the whip (maybe only in The Chosen)? He talks about how the people in the temple are turning God's house into a den of thieves because they are charging people. But, in Leviticus, it says that people have to pay the priests for sin offerings. (Wow, it kind of makes you rethink the old Catholic thing of selling off indulgences!)
It was the way, back then. You sinned, you had to give the priests money for forgiveness. Now, maybe the thing Jesus didn't like was how much the people were charging or the fact that they were trying to make money on something that was supposed to be for God. But, it just struck me that you could "buy forgiveness', and that God would require money!
Funny thing is, it never moved me when it mentions a goat or a lamb or a dove. Those things actually seem weirder. But, money - how could God ask the people to give their money?
Maybe it says something about the over importance I've placed on cash!
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