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Luke 19:45-48

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45When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling.

46“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be a house of prayer’; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

47Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him.

48Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.

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1)       According to verse 45 what did Jesus begin to do when he entered the temple courts?

o   Jesus began to drive out those who were selling.

 

2)       Why were people selling in the temple courts, given that people traveled long distances to Jerusalem to offer animal sacrifices?

o   People

§  Did not want to bring animals along.

§  And preferred to purchase them in Jerusalem.

 

3)       According to what Jesus said in verse 46 how was the proper and sacred use of the temple in accordance with what is written in the Old Testament abused?

o   It is written in the Old Testament: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’

o   But they had made it ‘a den of robbers’.

 

4)       According to verse 47 what were the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people trying to do to Jesus as he was teaching at the temple every day?

o   They were trying to kill Jesus.

 

5)       Why were the Jewish religious leaders trying to kill Jesus?

o   It is because

§  The temple was under the authority of the Jewish religious leaders.

§  And Jesus was infringing upon their authority.

 

6)       According to verse 48 why could the Jewish religious leaders not find any way to kill Jesus?

o   It is because all the people hung on Jesus’ words.

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Luke 19:45-48

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