178. A Second Cleansing of the Temple. Mk. 11:15–19

Then they came to Jerusalem. When the Lord Jesus entered the temple, he began again to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple; and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves; and he would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple. He was teaching and saying: “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers” (Is. 56:7).

The scribes and chief priests heard this and looked for a way to destroy him; for they were afraid of him, because all the people were astonished by his teaching.

And when evening came, he went out from the city.