Jesus chased the money-changers out of the Temple with a whip of cords. The way the story is told in the Gospels he put them to flight, chased them out the door, then basically hollered after them “And stay out!” The money-changers had it coming because, Jesus said, they had turned a house of prayer into a den of thieves. They were profiting from others’ poverty and ripping off the poor — just the sort of thing that we would… Read more