So for example, “Did Jesus cleanse the temple twice?” Here’s what I concluded after doing my homework. Our modern Western culture has a “correspondence theory” of truth.

Today’s Gospel (John 2:13-25) focuses on Jesus “cleansing the Temple.” It refers to Jesus driving the moneychangers and merchants out of the Temple precincts, using a whip to evict them.

In Jesus' cleansing of the Temple, ... (John 2:16). Christ's words, the Pope said, refer not only to those conducting business within the Temple, but "above all a type of religiosity." ...

The context of this statement in John’s Gospel is cleansing the temple, which occurs during Passover (John 2:13). This timing ties Jesus’ zeal to consuming the Passover lamb in Exodus 12.

John also writes in his first letter that the “blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7) Jesus came to be among His people in order to bring deliverance and salvation so that, as ...

Pope Francis drew a penitential lesson from Jesus' Cleansing of the Temple, ... (John 2:16). The Pope noted how the people and the disciples saw this action as a "prophetic gesture." ...

John’s Jesus is “an otherworldly spirit without earthly origins.” (But he “became flesh,” had a mother named Mary, ... When Jesus cleanses the temple, ...

John's gospel, interestingly enough, though, puts the story of the cleansing of the Temple as the very first episode in Jesus' public career. More than two years earlier, and no mention is made of ...

If necessary, Jesus will use some fearsome means to cleanse his temple (John 2:15), but we can avoid that by making frequent use of the sacrament of reconciliation this Lent.

According to the Bible, this happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time before his crucifixion, signifying a symbolic cleansing of the 'house of God' right before his own sacrifice ...