What do the actions of Jesus in expelling the merchants from the temple say about His view of business?
Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a ‘den of robbers.'” (Matthew 21:12–13 NIV) The merchants appear to be more interested in the worship of money than the worship of God. Even worse, Jesus may have perceived that the only reason the merchants were in the Temple was to make money. While there is nothing inherently evil about doing business, the worship of money is sin. Jesus appears to be reacting to the merchant’s worship of money, which is idolatry.
