Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: Overturning Tables

Jesus did not come to make everyone comfortable. When He walked into the temple in Mark 11, He overturned tables, drove out merchants, and confronted a system that had turned a house of prayer into a marketplace built on exploitation. The money changers were gouging pilgrims, the cost of sacrifices had been inflated beyond what the poor could afford, and the outer courts where Gentiles were…