Money changers

According to Matthew

21:12-13

12  Jesus entered the temple and threw out all those selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.m 13  And he said to them: “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’n but you are making it a cave of robbers.”


Location: Jerusalem, Israel

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