house cleaning
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John 2:13-22
House Cleaning
The Gospel of Mark indicates that it was in the last week of his life that Jesus “cleansed the Temple” by overturning the tables of the money changers and saying, “This is to be a house of prayer…but you have made it a den of thieves”
(Mark 11), whereas according to John this happened at the very beginning of Jesus’ ministry (John 2). Some readers have thought that Jesus must have cleansed the temple twice, once at the beginning of his ministry and once at the end.
Gospel Contradictions?
But that would mean that neither Mark nor John tells the ‘true’ story, since in both accounts he cleanses the temple only once. Moreover, is this reconciliation of the two accounts historically plausible? If Jesus made a disruption in the temple at the beginning of his ministry, why wasn’t he arrested by the authorities then?
Bart Ehrman, PhDthe James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Historically speaking, then, the accounts are not reconcilable.”
John 2:13-2213 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. 15 When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen,
John 2:13-22and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. 16 And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” 17 Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.”
John 2:13-2218 So the Jews answered and said to Him, “What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?” 19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
John 2:13-2221 But He was speaking of the temple of His body. 22 Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.
DIFFERENT GOSPEL RECORDS
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Synoptic Gospels
DIFFERENT GOSPEL RECORDS
Matthew 21:12-1312 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
DIFFERENT GOSPEL RECORDS
Mark 11:12,15-1715 So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 16 And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. 17 Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
DIFFERENT GOSPEL RECORDS
Luke 19:45-4645 Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
DIFFERENT GOSPEL RECORDS John 2:13-17
13 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. 15 When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. 16 And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” 17 Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.”
HOUSE INSPECTION
1. Identify “Corruption”Leviticus 14:54–57 “This is the law for any leprous sore and scale, 55 for the leprosy of a garment and of a house, 56 for a swelling and a scab and a bright spot, 57 to teach when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.”
HOUSE INSPECTION
1. Identify “Corruption”
Some Statistics regarding Leprosy• > 3 million people have disabilities as a
result of leprosy• 75 children a day are diagnosed• India, Brazil and Indonesia have the most
new cases of leprosy• 168 new cases were diagnosed in the
U.S. in 2012
HOUSE INSPECTION
1. Identify “Corruption”
HOUSE INSPECTION
2. Home owner “Initiates Inspection”Leviticus 14:35 and he who owns the house comes and tells the priest, saying, ‘It seems to me that there is some plague in the house,’
HOUSE INSPECTION
2. Home owner “Initiates Inspection”John 2:16 And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!”
HOUSE INSPECTION
2. Home owner “Initiates Inspection”1 Corinthians 6:19–20 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
HOUSE INSPECTION
3. Contact “a Priest”Leviticus 14:36–37 then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes into it to examine the plague, that all that is in the house may not be made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to examine the house. 37 And he shall examine the plague; and indeed if the plague is on the walls of the house with ingrained streaks, greenish or reddish, which appear to be deep in the wall,
HOUSE INSPECTION
3. Contact “a Priest”Mark 11:11 And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve. Exodus 25:30 And you shall set the showbread on the table before Me always. Deuteronomy 11:12 a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.
HOUSE INSPECTION
4. First Inspection “the Home is Shut Up for 7 Days”
Leviticus 14:38 then the priest shall go out of the house, to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
HOUSE INSPECTION
5. Second Inspection “Stones Replaced”Leviticus 14:39–41 And the priest shall come again on the seventh day and look; and indeed if the plague has spread on the walls of the house, 40 then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which is the plague, and they shall cast them into an unclean place outside the city. 41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped inside, all around, and the dust that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city.
HOUSE INSPECTION
5. Second Inspection “Stones Replaced”Leviticus 14:42 Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other mortar and plaster the house.
HOUSE INSPECTION
5. Second Inspection “Stones Replaced”John 2:23 Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did.
1st Day Jn. 1:15-342nd Day Jn. 1:35-513nd Day Jn. 2:1 “the third day”4th Day Jn. 2:13 “Passover of the Jews
was at hand”
HOUSE INSPECTION
5. Second Inspection “Stones Replaced”
Luke 19:46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
Mark 11:17 Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
HOUSE INSPECTION
6. If Contamination Persisted “Condemnation & Destruction”
Leviticus 14:44–45 then the priest shall come and look; and indeed if the plague has spread in the house, it is an active leprosy in the house. It is unclean. 45 And he shall break down the house, its stones, its timber, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them outside the city to an unclean place.
HOUSE INSPECTION
6. If Contamination Persisted “Condemnation & Destruction”
destruction, break open, prick =(mā·ʾǎr) מאר
Genesis 3:18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, Numbers 33:55 those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell.
HOUSE INSPECTION
6. If Contamination Persisted “Condemnation & Destruction”
Isaiah 53:5 He was wounded for our [pierced (ḥā·lǎl) חלל]transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
7. House “Rebuilt” (Lev. 15-16)Exodus 40:35–36 And Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 36 Whenever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would go onward in all their journeys.
= (šā·ḵǎn) שכןa dwelling place
HOUSE INSPECTION
7. House “Rebuilt” (Lev. 15-16)
1 Peter 2:4–5 Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
TOTAL EVACUATION
This study was produced by Harry Morgan, M.A., M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D.,
LMHC, CFMHE, CCSOTS
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