Jesus Cleanses the Temple
Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
He said to them, “It is written,
‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’;
but you are making it a den of robbers.”
The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he cured them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he did, and heard the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became angry
and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,
‘Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise for yourself’?”
What of us today
who have been driven out
of our sanctuaries?
What has become, for us,
in these days
our place of prayer?
Where are we hearing
voices raised to God
in praise
in anguish
in pleading?
How are we responding
to those who cry out
to God?
Where are we practising
the things that we preach
in our temples?
How are we making space
to listen for wisdom
in the voices of children?
And where are we seeing
the clearing out
of all that hinders
our turning to God
to lead us through
this time of trial?
Sifting through the carnage
for something to hold on to
what will we find?
What, in the end,
will lead us into life?
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