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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TAX COLLECTOR PT2)

September 22, 2021Uncategorizedacts, bible times, chief, chief tax collector, Christ, collector, dramatic, everyday life in bible times, God, God the Father, God the Son, God's House, greed, Jericho, jesus, Jew, Jewish, Jewish leaders, jews, love, Luke, Mark, Matthew, money changers, new testament, Old Testament, prostitutes, Sin, sin-ruined world, sinned, sinner, sinners, sins, tax, tax collector, Tax Collectors, teach, Zacchaeusabarkley8

We also find Jesus using the perceptions linked with tax collectors to jolt the Jewish leaders from their complacency. While he was teaching in the temple courts during the final week of his life on earth, Jesus frequently clashed with the Jewish leaders, who questioned his authority and resisted his invitations to know him as their Savior from sin.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (MONEY CHANGERS)

September 10, 2021Uncategorized20 percent, 300 percent, altar, animals, animals sacrifices, changers, Christ, cities, city, commission, definition, definition of the day, foreign, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, Hebrew, invest, invested, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jew, Jewish, John, Kermotistes, kollubistes, loaned, Luke, Matthew, money, money changers, new testament, Old Testament, origin, pay, sell, Semitic, Semitic origin, shekel, small change, sold animals, table, temple, temple tax, trapetzites, vendorsabarkley8

Persons whose profession was to sell or exchange Roman or other moneys for Jewish money acceptable in the temple worship. In NT times regions and cities issued their own money. This caused Jews of the Dispersion, those who lived outside of Judea, to bring many kinds of money to Jerusalem. To help visitors change money into that acceptable in Jerusalem, money changers set up tables in the temple court of the Gentiles. Syrian silver coins were the money of Jerusalem then, and worshipers used them to pay their temple tax of a half shekel and to buy sacrifices for the altar.

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HOW CAN JESUS BE CONSIDERED SINLESS WHEN THE BIBLE DESCRIBES HIS ANGER?

August 19, 2021Uncategorizedapostles, Christ, devil, Disciples, dramatic, Ephesians, evil, facts, four Gospels, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, Gospel, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, mad, market, market place, Matthew, military campaigns 17 years, money, money changers, motivating power, new testament, Old Testament, passoin, power, Sin, sinned, sinner, temple, worship, worshiper, worshippingabarkley8

All four Gospels describe Jesus clearing the money changers form the temple; none use the term “anger” as part of the description. We infer anger from the facts given and from the passion mentioned in John 2:17.

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