45Going into the Temple he began to throw out everyone who had set up shop, selling everything and anything.p
46He said, "It''s written in Scripture, My house is a house of prayer; You have turned it into a religious bazaar."q
47From then on he taught each day in the Temple. The high priests, religion scholars, and the leaders of the people were trying their best to find a way to get rid of him.
Luke 19 is a hinge chapter in the gospel, pivoting from Jesus’ public ministry toward his final confrontation in Jerusalem. It opens with the unlikely conversion of Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, demonstrating that salvation comes to the lost and transforms their ethics. The p
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