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Jesus' anger at the money changers and the history of man?

I have to read selections from the Bible and answer some questions on it for some summer homework and I'm having a really hard time with this one question. Any help would be appreciated. How might Jesus' anger at the money changers make Christ's teachings seem revolutionary given the history of man up to that point? If you help me out, I will love you forever and give you mad points because you just helped me finally finish a packet of over 600 questions.

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1. how was your summer?
2. Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto god what is god's.
3. See John 2:13-17. Near the beginning of his public ministry, at the time of the Passover, Jesus had gained general attention by driving from the temple those who made merchandise in his Father's house. Now, during the last week of his mortal ministry, quoting what he himself as the Lord Jehovah had said through Isaiah (Isa. 56:7), "Mine house shall be called an house of prayer," he again exercised his divine prerogative to cleanse that which was both his and his Father's. The Lord drew boundary lines to define acceptable limits of tolerance. Danger rises when those divine limits are disobeyed. Just as parents teach little children not to run and play in the street, the Savior taught us that we need not tolerate evil. “Jesus went into the temple of God, and … and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers.”16 Though He loved the sinner, the Lord said that He “cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance.”17 His Apostle Paul specified some of those sins in a letter to the Galatians. The list included “adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, He who is or should be the guide of our lives was the most courageous of all men. “In Jesus we find bravery at the best; courage at its loftiest; heroism at its climax.” True heroism defends the right and faces disaster without cringing. In this regard the Savior was the personification of true courage and heroism. Illustrative of this I need only mention the cleansing of the temple [see Matthew 21:12-13]; or his fearlessly speaking the truth when his home folk turned him from Nazareth [see Luke 4:16-32, Luke 4:43-44]; or when the five thousand in Capernaum … [were reduced in number and] he turned [to the Twelve] and said, “Will ye also go away?” [See John 6:66-67.] Never once, however, did the Master despair or turn from his destined course. This is the kind of courage we need in the world today
4. In Jesus’ time some took advantage of the situation to advance their own interests. The notorious money changers at the temple, for example, were not there just to make change. Rather, they capitalized on the fact that only Hebrew shekels were acceptable as offerings, and all those with Roman or Greek money would have to exchange it. According to Alfred Edersheim, an authority on Jewish history, “the bankers were allowed to charge a silver meah, or about one-fourth of a denar [or denarius, a laborer’s wage for a day’s work] on every half-shekel.” If this is correct, it is not hard to see what a lucrative business this must have become and why the religious leaders were so incensed when Jesus drove out the money changers.
5. Jesus' teachings were revolutionary and still are. Jesus claimed to be God in the flesh, called God His Father, and these were revolutionary claims. The Jews were expecting the Messiah, but they weren't expecting Jesus. They were expecting a military leader who would free them from the Roman yoke, but here is Jesus telling them to love one another, and put others before themselves, and repent of their sins. In the temple scene, He basically destroyed all the businesses of the money changers (which today might be considered vandalism and/or assault). He said to the money changers, "You are making My Father's house a den of thieves, but it should be a house of prayer." He was outraged that people were making a business out of religion. The Pharisees were the religious leaders of the Jews at that point in time, and they were quite comfortable in exploiting people and using religion for selfish purposes. Everything about Jesus is truly revolutionary and still is. Good Luck and God Bless.
6. Jesus was angry because those men where running their selling of sheep and other wares on sacred ground which was the temple of God. It was a clear display of a serious lack of respect for sacred grounds.
7. Jesus was against everything that we do today, taxes, exploitation, interest rates, moneylending, the whole shibang including gambling. Which is supposedly a part of the islamic faith not to gamble. A radical man jesus in his time, politically he could have gone far if the jews hadn't wanted to protect their way of life and the romans hadn't been such cowards. As the story goes. Hey, I'm an atheist, that's my take on it, but good luck with your homework.
8. There was nothing revolutionary about his action towards those dealing with money in his Fathers temple of worship ... The practice of bingo today in the cellars of churches would gain the same answer even though God is absent from such a place .... The lesson learned by such action on Jesus's part was that such practice's is not tolerated by God or his son Jesus..... Money is never more important than the worship of our Creator , His Son simply was angered