The Jesus Who Flips Tables

Perhaps this is a Jesus story you’ve heard before, perhaps it’s fresh and new. It’s one that tends to bring up big feelings, intense reactions. As you read, try to really visualize what’s happening, the commotion Jesus is making. What emotions does this Jesus bring up for you?

12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.

From Matt. 21

If you love this Jesus who flips tables, take a moment to ask yourself why? Or if this Jesus makes you uncomfortable, perhaps even frightened, again, why? What questions do you have to ask him? You can do that now, taking a moment to write them down or share them with Jesus silently.

This week we’ll be asking how this snapshot of Jesus’s life fits into the overall plot of Scripture and the heart of God. We hope you’ll mull along.