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It was a day of mixed emotions. The crucial climax is fast approaching.

Having ridden down the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, on a donkey, to fulfill a 500-year-old prophecy, Jesus Christ entered the city.

Was the Saviour of the world about to rescue His people from the political oppression of the occupying Roman rule? No.

To the right of that gate lay the Antonio fortress, the headquarters of the Roman authorities.

Jesus did not turn right. He turned left approaching the Temple, which resembled a market place, and there He overturned the tables of traders and moneychangers.

The Temple was intended to be a place of prayer and worship for all nations and peoples. It had become a den of thieves.

Travelling to Jerusalem was dangerous. You ran the risk of being attacked and robbed as gangs emerged from wilderness caves.

When you reached the Temple, you should have been safe, but people were being financially mugged, in the place appointed for praise and prayer.

Jesus Christ drove out everything that ought never to have been in the church of the day. Strong stuff! Strong man, this Jesus!

Here is righteous love, displaying sinless anger at the misuse of what God had given to help men be holy.

When Jesus confronted sin He was never soft or compromising.

Would anyone dare approach Jesus Christ in this frame of mind? That was not a problem. The blind and the lame came to him and He healed them.

The same hands that drove out what should never have been permitted, then touched eyes and limbs for healing.

Children continued to shout 'Hosanna', which means 'save us now', broken bodies were being repaired, and His critics were indignant at what He was doing.

Sandy Shaw
Nairn Christian Fellowship

"Point of Reference" from Fred Price

"As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man." Prov. 27:19