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[–] kromem@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't about money changers, it was about the people selling animal sacrifices. The money changers just enabled them.

This is more explicitly laid out in Mark where it prohibits carrying anything through the temple.

That gets conveniently left out in Matthew where he copies from it as there's a bit of a theological paradox if it's Jesus's death that makes animal sacrifices pointless and he's telling people to stop killing animals to cleanse their sins while still alive.

[–] kender242@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It gets even more juicy if you learn the context at the time. It was about loans. Jesus wiped the debt records. Jesus;DROP TABLE HIGH_INTEREST_LOANS

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It wasn't about loans. It was about animal sacrifices.

There is discussion of forgiving debts elsewhere, particularly in apocrypha, but the temple episode was about the sacrifices.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Mr Robot is Jesus 2.0 confirmed