Temple Traders Thrown Out

A day after he arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus, in a rare angry outburst,  entered the temple courts of Jerusalem and began driving out those who were buying and selling there.

He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the benches of those selling doves, and did not not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.

“Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers", he admonished the traders.

Some bystanders told this reporter they were amazed at the strange authority with which he drove the traders away.

"He acted like he owned the place", lamented some displaced traders.

It is learnt that the traders have made a complaint against him to temple authorities, but the authorities are unable to do anything, openly, afraid of upsetting the huge crowds that are following Jesus, and listening to him preach.

However, unfazed by covert threats from temple authorities', Jesus said he will be preaching the next day in the same temple area.

So, tomorrow will tell us more.

Fig Tree Cursed

A hungry Jesus, later in the day, saw a fig tree by the road. But when he went up to it, he found no figs, but only leaves.

Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!”  Very rarely has Jesus cursed anything. It seems like a rare day, said one of his disciples.

But it is clear that Jesus likes fruitful trees. And he's, perhaps telling us to live fruitful lives, the disciple; said along with some other followers.

Jesus Cried over the City?

Earlier to the Temple incident, Jesus was seen emotionally troubled - at the city of Jerusalem's moral condition - according to our special correspondent, embedded in the crowds.

When Jesus had earlier approached Jerusalem and had seen the city, he wept over 'Jerusalem" and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.

"The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”

They seem very prophetic, though we do not really know the future.



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High Priests Speak Out!

In an exclusive interview with our own correspondent  Krosstiana Hamanpoor, Chief Priests of the Temple of Jerusalem, Annas and his son-in-law Caiaphas, openly expressed displeasure at the rising popularity of Jesus.