Series: Kids Online Explorers 2025
Jesus Cleansed the Temple
March 09, 2025
Passage: Mark 11:15-19
Jesus had been traveling and teaching the disciples and other
people about why God sent Him. Jesus had been healing people.
After many days, Jesus and the disciples went back to
Jerusalem. Jesus walked to the temple as He often did when He
was in Jerusalem.
Many people were in Jerusalem preparing for the Passover
festival, a special time of worship. Merchants had set up tables to
exchange money and they had built many pens to hold animals.
The city was noisy and crowded with all the people and animals.
As Jesus made His way to the temple, He saw the crowds. Jesus
looked toward the temple courtyard and saw the merchants busy
at their work. The courtyard looked like a stockyard or a huge
market instead of a place to worship God!
Jesus was angry. People needed to be able to go to the temple,
purchase their animals, and enter the places where they could
worship God and give praise to Him. Jesus did not like that the
merchants and their tables crowded the paths and walkways to
the temple! No one could even get near the temple entrance.
Jesus walked through the temple courtyard and told the
merchants to get out! Jesus turned over the tables of the
moneychangers. Jesus tossed the chairs out of the way.
Jesus said: “Don’t you remember what Isaiah wrote? God’s
house will be a place of prayer for everyone! But you people have
turned the temple into a market!”
The crowd of people were astonished when they heard Jesus
say this.
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