Tag: temple
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Holy Week – Wednesday: The Widow’s Mite
The widow of this story has generally been held up as a model of sacrificial, costly faith. But is that the best interpretation of this event?
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Holy Week: Tuesday
Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance…
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Holy Week – Monday: ‘the cleansing of the Temple’
On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area 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. (Mark 11:15-16 )