12Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out all the people buying and selling animals for sacrifice. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.e
Matthew 21 marks a decisive pivot in the Gospel narrative. Jesus enters Jerusalem in a deliberately provocative display of messianic kingship, cleanses the temple with prophetic authority, curses a fig tree as a living parable of judgment, and engages in escalating confrontations
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