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<\/a><\/div>\n\n I toyed with titling this post The First \u201cOccupy David Street\u201d because that is one famous shopping street in modern-day old Jerusalem. But I suspect that \u201cOccupy Wall Street\u201d works every bit as well, since if there were people engaging in commerce in or near to the outer court of the temple, it was surely not far from a wall.<\/p>\n
Be that as it may, Jesus certainly was not the first to engage in a prophetic critique of profit-making. And indeed, it is debated whether the so-called \u201ctemple tantrum\u201d was about protesting making money off of pilgrims, or a symbolic act portending the temple's destruction, or something else.<\/p>\n
What do you think Jesus' act of driving moneychangers and sellers of animals out of the temple was intended to achieve or convey? <\/p>\n
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