A new peer-reviewed article offers an alternative reading of the famous Gospel story that saw Jesus flipping the tables of ...

When this series was originally published three years ago I noted that, in Years B (Mark, this year) and C (Luke) of the Sunday readings cycle, there are two possible Gospels for the Third, Fourth and ...

A study suggests hunger and stress may explain the Jesus temple cleansing, offering a human view of why tables were ...

“Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace” (John 2:16). Ezek 47:1-2, 8-9, 12; 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17; John 2:13-22 Large buildings are one way to establish the permanence of governments and churches.

A scene in the New Testament long understood as an act of divine anger — the cleansing of the Temple by Jesus — may instead reflect a moment shaped by human strain, according to a new academic study.

Even if you didn’t go to Sunday school as a child, you are probably familiar with one of the Bible’s most commonly referenced stories, that of Jesus cleansing the temple of the money changers.