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V. 22. His resurrection from the dead is God’s seal to all the claims of Jesus. It is God’s seal upon Jesus Christ’s claim to be a teacher sent from God who spoke the very words of God (ch. 7 :1 6 ; 12:49).. It is God’s seal upon Jesus Christ’s claim to be a Divine person in a unique sense (ch. 5:22, :23;: 10:30; 1 4 :9 ). It is %God’s seal upon Jesus Christ’s claim that He was to be the judge of the world (ch. 5:22, 23, 28, 29,). The way in which the Old Testament Scriptures and “ the word which Jesus said” «are coupled is worthy of thoughtful notice. Note also that the “ body” of Jesus was the temple of God (cf. ch. 1:14 R. V. Margin). Incidentally, there is clear proof in verses 19-21 that the resurrection of Jesus was a resurrectioh of His body; for He says that He will raise up “ this temple.” (which they would seek to destroy) and v. 21 says that “ the temple” of which He spokes, was “ the temple of His body.” Many professedly Christian teachers are teaching in these days that the resurrection of Jesus, “was not a resurrection of His body but a spiritual resurrection.” This passage utterly demolishes that theory. So do many other passages in the Bible. The Bible knows no resurrection of Jesus but the resurrection of His body.— Torrey.
The sacrifices and services of the material temple found their true interpretation and virtue in the mystical temple (Heb. 9:11-14; 1 0 :10 ; 19:22; 1 Cot. 5 :7 ). From this fundamental truth follows another equally important— the spiritual temple of sainthood. Believ- COMMENTS ers ate now spiritual temples— temples FROM THE for the enshrinement of the Holy Spirit. COMMENTARIES liù-Pract. Com. V. V. Morgan V: 14. These animals were offered as' sacrifices by the Jews, many of whom came from a distance and could not bring the animals with them. A market of thè sort was a necessity but. of course it should not have been within the sacred enclosure of the temple. The impious traffic was at its height because the passover was near at hand. The Greek word translated, “ changers” implies the change from large coins to small ones.-83-Peloubet. V. 15. The Greek word here" translated “ changers” is different from the one used in the preceding verse and means one who exchanges the money of one country for that of another. Strangers from all lands were visiting the temple, and only Jewish money could be offered there.
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The cleansing of the temple was the first public act of Jesus, at least at Jèrusalem, as a similar act was among His last, three years later. No doubt His soul had been deeply stirred, many a time during the years in which He attended the Passover feast at Jerusalem, DEVOTIONAL before entering upon His, public ministry. COMMENT But now that the hour had come in which ,J. A. Hubbard He was to show and offer Himself to Israel hs the long-looked-for Messiah, He does so by means of this significant and symbolic act of cleansing, which reminds us of the statement of His forerunner, John the Baptist,— ’’Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thor oughly purge his floor.” The practice which Jesus rebuked affords a fine example of the fact that it is possible to do a legitimate and right thing in the wrong way, in the wrong place, and from wrong motives: To the Passover Jews came from different coun tries, and could not well bring their sacrificai animals with them. For others to sell these animals to these pilgrims was perfectly proper. And it was very necessary that they exchange their foreign coins for the Jewish half-shekel, with which the Temple tax must be paid. But what had been carried on, no doubt, in à proper way and in the right place had gradually found a place within the Temple court,
Every Jew was required to pay to the temple a half-shekel as an annual poll-tax. This exchange gave opportunity for much trickery and dishonest gain.— Peloubet. V. 16. At the second cleansing of the temple, two years later, things seem to have grown worse instead of better, the temple has then become'“ a den of robbers”''or a bandits’ cave. (Matt. 21:13; Mark 11:17.— Cam. Bible. It has been the tendency of worldly professors of the religion of Jesus to introduce into the church schemes for raising money by appealing to the people’s love of pleasure. God’s house is dedicated to sacred uses and no one has a right to use it for worldly business or amusements.— Pract. Com. V. 17. The quotation, which is from Psa. 69:9, means that the writer’s love for God’s house and earnest seeking for its prosperity and honor are so great that they have drawn upon him the persecution of God’s enemies. So hotly flamed the just wrath of Christ.— SeL “ Eaten me up”— a glorious feature in the predicted character of the suffer ing Messiah (Psa. 69:9) and rising high even in some not worthy to loose the latchet of His shoes. (Exod. 32 :19 ). V. 20. When the Jews came to repeat this saying at Christ’s trial they Changed it to “build it” and “ build another made without hands” (Matt. 26:61; Mark 14 :58 ), thus destroying Christ’s reference to His own resurrection. —-Peloubet.
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