pixxelkick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Naw.
For context at this time the Jewish people were under strict roman rule and oppression, treated as second class citizens.
Jesus shows up to this huge, extremely sanctions, temple. It’s not just any temple, its one of THE temples for Jewish worship.
Inside he finds that the romans have pretty much turned it into an animal pen + marketplace. It’s filthy, there’s animals shitting all over, there’s people doing business, people are being extremely disrespectful.
Because the Romans didnt give a shit about Jewish ppl, this was a super huge insult to the very oppressed Jewish ppl, and in turn God in general.
So yeah Jesys goes apeshit and starts flipping tables, chasing ppl out of the temple, whipping people and animals, basically being like “all you assholes gtfo how dare you”
It’s less about the money stuff and more about the donkeys actively shitting on the floor and romans spitting on the temple.
Contextually its likely people were doing stuff like pissing on the wall (no bathroom in a makeshit marketplace, what do you think would happen), graffiti’ing, spitting, throwing garbage on the floor, so on and so on.