Jesus once “looked around the crowd with anger” (Mark 3:5). Another time He took a whip and cleansed the temple with calculated and controlled anger. They had turned the court of the Gentiles into a bank and market, discouraging ethnic worship for all people. The disciples were learning what outraged Him. A disciple is one who learns the reactions of his teacher in order to react the Jesus way. May we be angry at what angers God!
“Jesus entered Jerusalem and came into the temple; and after looking around at everything, He left for Bethany with the twelve, since it was already late.”…Then they *came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple and began to drive out those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves; and He would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple. And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL THE NATIONS (Greek Ethnos from which we get ethnic)’? But you have made it a ROBBERS’ DEN.” Mark 11:11,15-17 (NASB)
