How Many Times Did Jesus Clear the Temple?

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The day after Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey's colt, to shouts of Hosanna and blessed is he who comes in the name of the

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Lord, he went to the temple and drove out the merchants, overturned their tables, and he said, Is it not written,

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My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But you have made it a den of robbers. All three of the

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Synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, tell of Jesus cleansing the temple after his triumphal entry.

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This would have been on the Monday before he was crucified on Friday. But the book of John records something different.

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It says Jesus cleansed the temple way at the start of his ministry, a few years before he was crucified. What gives?

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These are actually two separate temple cleansings. It's in John's story where Jesus famously made a whip of cords, which he used to drive everyone out and he overturned their tables.

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But it's in what Jesus said that we see the biggest difference between the two cleansings. In the first cleansing, he said,

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Take these things away. Do not make my father's house a house of trade. But in the second cleansing, he said,

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My house shall be called a house of prayer. In the first cleansing, the temple was his father's house.

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In the second, he called it his house. And rightly so. Jesus is God, and it has always been his house.

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But the second cleansing was right after the triumphal entry, announcing himself as king, that he referred to the temple as,

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My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations. Jesus gave his life to purify for himself a people from every nation, that we might become a spiritual house unto the