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Driving of the Merchants From the Temple by Scarsellino. In the narrative, Jesus is stated to have visited the Temple in Jerusalem, where the courtyard was described as being filled with livestock, merchants, and the tables of the money changers, who changed the standard Greek and Roman money for Jewish and Tyrian shekels. [6]
Two versions and that other on loan from Madrid are titled Purification of the Temple. The one at the National Gallery in Washington is called Christ Cleansing the Temple. The painting which bears this actual title belongs to the Minneapolis Institute of Art and it is somewhat different from all the other versions of this legendary Christian ...
The Purification or the Cleansing of the Temple is a common narrative that tells the story of how Christ and his disciples, before the Jewish Passover went to Jerusalem to visit the Temple. The Cleansing or Purification of the Temple, occurs in all four Gospels: Matthew 21:12–17; Mark 11:15–19; Luke 19:45–48; and John 2:13–16.
It depicts the Cleansing of the Temple, an event in the Life of Christ. There exist four copies of the painting and also a faithful reproduction in the National Gallery in London , which has recently been considered as authentic by scholars in the field of visual arts. [ 2 ]
The story of Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers in the Second Temple is related next. Jesus and his disciples go to Jerusalem for the "Passover of the Jews", [34] the first of three visits to Jerusalem recounted in this gospel, the others being in John 7, [35] where he goes for the Feast of Tabernacles, and the final Passover ...
It depicts the Cleansing of the Temple, an event in the Life of Christ. There exist three other copies of the painting and also a faithful reproduction in the National Gallery in London , which has recently been considered as authentic by scholars in the field of visual arts. [ 2 ]
The word "authority" (Greek: ἐξουσίᾳ, exousia) is frequently used in relation to Jesus in the New Testament. A similar episode is described in the Gospel of John at John 2:13–18) as part of the Cleansing of the Temple narrative. In John's account, after expelling the merchants and the money changers from the Temple, Jesus is confronted:
[Jesus] Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves. [22] In expelling the dealers from the Temple, Jesus' words draw from both Isaiah 56:7 (a house of prayer for all nations) and Jeremiah 7:11 (a den of thieves). Matthew 21:13 [23] and Mark 11:17 have the same quotations.