The Temple Court What did Jesus do when he entered the Temple ?(3 things) How did he explain his actions? What was he not happy about? (2 things) In this incident, was Jesus teaching others to use violence? Yes because.. No because.. **What is your opinion, about Q3? Court of Gentiles On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’ Mk 11:15-18 To describe Jesus’ protest in the Temple To evaluate if Jesus was advocating violence as a way of protesting

Yes No Conclusion? (another point to consider?) Should Christians use violence ? P.98 Yes No Conclusion? (another point to consider?) Was this mainly a symbolic, rather than violent, protest? Did he do it, to be confrontational, to provoke his own arrest and trial? Was he contradicting his own teachings on love and forgiveness?

Christian attitudes to violent protest Jesus frequently taught against violence - in the other gospels. Jesus went to his death without a fight, & died on the cross without resistance (all gospels) If someone slaps you on one cheek, “turn the other cheek” (Matthew) to Peter, to put his sword away in the Garden of Gethsemane, when Peter wanted to protect Jesus (Matthew, Luke)

Some Christians follow Jesus teaching of non-violence, in any situation. Other Christians say that sometimes, expressing anger in a dramatic, but non-harmful way, can make the point more powerfully, than just speaking out. Read about what Greenpeace did p.99. Was their violence “righteous” like Jesus? Or was it unacceptably violent and destructive? Can violent protest ever be right?