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Why was Jesus so enraged?
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Jesus got angry because the temple system had become corrupt.
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Temples are places of worship. By turning the temple into a shopping area, sellers and money-changers insulted God and abused the worshipers.
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Jesus poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables to destroy the barriers that separate them from God.
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Jesus drove everyone out of the temple to draw them back to God and to His intent for their lives.
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The temple-cleansing story challenges us to do a spiritual housecleaning to draw ourselves back to God's intent for our lives.
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