Destroy This Temple Second Sunday of Lent John 2: 13 – 25 Today is the third Sunday of Lent. Today’s Gospel reading is about Jesus who went to the temple and there found people selling all sorts of things like cattle, sheep and doves. Jesus also found money changers who were seated at their tables. The Passover, which was an important Jewish feast, was near and one could imagine the multitude of people heading to the temple. Then in the midst of so many people, Jesus does the unthinkable. He makes a whip and starts driving all the cattle, sheep and doves out of the temple and pours out the coins of the money changers and overturns their tables. Amidst this commotion he gives out this stern command: “ Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market place!” Some of those present must have been quite surprised and began to question Jesus’ own authority in doing this by asking him: “ What sign can you show us for doing
