‘Tact’ my arse,, didn’t Jesus ‘toss’ physically the money changers and ‘favour sellers’ from the Temple? Or sumthin’ like that?
More than that. When He saw the goings on, He went and made a whip of cords.
Sounds pretty premeditated to me. It's not like He just happened to have one in His pocket, or saw one laying on the ground.
I can see it now. He and His disciples are heading to the Temple. Jesus sees what's going on and is INCENSED. You can see it in His eyes.
The disciples look at each other, thinking *Oh-oh. He's MAD. You ever see Him look like that before? What's He going to do now?*
Meanwhile, He stalks back to His carpenter shop and MAKES a whip of cords, fashioning the handle, nailing the whip to it. Testing it our and striding back to the Temple.
I'd be pretty sure the disciples were all standing together in a knot wondering just what He was going to do with that whip and He brings it our and, well you know the rest of the story.....
Sometimes it's fun to really think through what might have transpired in some of these accounts we are so familiar with.
Just like the one where they broke through the roof. Not a quiet or clean proposition. Plaster and wood ships everywhere. Jesus trying to teach over the hammering and debris falling.
I can just picture Him looking up at the ceiling once in a while smiling.....
Yep, and the time is fast approaching that those who think the Lord is all nicey, nicey to those who don’t listen to Him are going to be in for a rude awakening and some horrific times.