Read: John 2:13–22

In the temple Jesus found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. John 2:14

When Jesus went up to the temple in Jerusalem, He was angered by what He saw. Merchants were selling doves, sheep, and cattle in the portico of the temple. Money changers were changing currency. The temple, the most holy place in all Judaism, the earthly home of God, had become cluttered. The entrenched buying and selling, the commerce and commercialism, and the corruption and the disorder of the temple had made it nearly…