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.

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.

Jesus’ cleansing of the moneychangers from the Temple is a reminder to Christians of the need for “authentic worship” and “conformity between liturgy and life,” Pope Francis said.

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.

Yet, the blood of the Lamb is described as cleansing. John also writes in his first letter that the “blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7) ...

Since the Jewish hierarchs who controlled the temple served as lackeys to the Romans, Jesus’ cleansing the temple challenged not only the hierarchs’ authority, but also that of the Romans.

Researchers have pieced together the final moments of Jesus, creating a map that they believe shows his journey through Jerusalem leading up to the resurrection.

Pope Francis drew a penitential lesson from Jesus' Cleansing of the Temple, encouraging Christians to allow Jesus to drive out "all the behaviors that are against God, against our neighbor, and ...

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.

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 ...