Matthew 21:12-14
“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’.’ The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.”
The day after Palm Sunday Jesus cleans house, His Father’s house. He took a look at what was happening and said, “Enough!”
These temple workers were not being honest. They were stealing from the people. Some of these people had traveled from far away places and were unfamiliar with what was right. Some may have come from other nations.
Jesus’ call to humanity is to all nations. Which is why I love to see the connection between what He says here and the rest of the quote from the Isaiah 56:7, “…for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
Jesus came for all. He came for men and women. He came for the Jew and the Gentile. He came for the sick, the weary, and the broken. And right after turning tables upside down, what did he do?
He healed people. While the chief priests and teachers of the law became “indignant” (Matthew 21:15), the blind, the lame, and children came to Him. He healed them.
He is the God who heals. He is the God who accepts all. He did not turn the hurting away. He reaches out to them and heals them. He offers Himself.
