New TestamentGospels and Acts of the Apostles |
Why did Jesus get mad when he was in the temple? |
When Jesus entered Jerusalem, he went to the temple. Seeing that the temple had become more of a place for commerce than worship, Jesus drove the merchants out, and exclaimed, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a den of robbers.” (NRSV, Matthew 21:13)