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The ''' Cleansing of the Temple ''' refers to an episode in the [[Passion of Jesus]]. The episode is narrated in the Synoptic Gospels (Mark 11:15–19; Matthew 21:12–13; Luke 19:45–48), as well as in the Gospel of John (John 2:13–22), although with a different chronology.
 
==Overview==
 
The Cleansing of the Temple is one of the few events in the life of Jesus that is recorded by all four "canonical" Gospels.
 
The setting in Mark-Matthew-Luke is that of the final confrontation of Jesus with the Temple authorities during his final visit to Jerusalem. It was a direct attack to the Temple's sacrificial system, carried out during the critical time of the Passover by an organized group of people. As such it was an offense that the Temple police could not overlook. Jesus' destiny was sealed. 
 
The Gospel of John was aware that the event took place when "the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem." However, it  changed the chronology, by moving the event at the very beginning of Jesus' preaching, turning it into a teaching about the role of the Holy Spirit in the interpretation of Jesus' words. The tendency of the Gospel of John was also to downplay the political aspect of the final confrontation. The ''causus belli'' was rather the [[Raising of Lazarus]]; the emphasis shifts on the religious claims about Jesus, which now separated the Johannine community from "the Jews".
 
==The Cleansing of the Temple in Scholarship==
 
Scholars tends to support the Synoptics' chronology, as the episode makes more sense at the end of Jesus' ministry. It was this open challenge to the authority of the Temple that likely prompted the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus, as explicitly stated by Mark and Luke.
 
==The Cleansing of the Temple in Fiction==
 
==External links==
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple Wikipedia]  




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