He [Jesus] went into Jerusalem and into the temple. After looking around at everything, since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve…They came to Jerusalem, and he went into the temple and began to throw out those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves, and would not permit anyone to carry goods through the temple. He was teaching them: “Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves!” The chief priests and the scribes heard it and started looking for a way to kill him. For they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was astonished by his teaching. (Mark 11:11, 15-18)

Has this house, which bears my name, become a den of robbers in your view? Yes, I too have seen it. This is the LORD’s declaration. (Jeremiah 7:11)

“As for the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD
to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD,
and to become his servants—
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold firmly to my covenant—
I will bring them to my holy mountain
and let them rejoice in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
will be acceptable on my altar,
for my house will be called a house of prayer
for all nations.”
(Isaiah 56:6-7)

Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up in three days.” Therefore the Jews said, “This temple took forty-six years to build, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made. (John 2:19-22)

Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? (1 Corinthians 6:19)

God within you comforts and changes you.

Reflection Question: What tables need to be overturned in your life? Where in your life do you need to surrender fully to Jesus?