So for example, “Did Jesus cleanse the temple twice?” Here’s what I concluded after doing my homework. Our modern Western culture has a “correspondence theory” of truth.

Jesus is the new and perfect temple Mark portrays Jesus as the new locus of God’s presence. In Mark 1:40-45, Jesus cleanses a leper without temple rituals, because He is the true Temple.

Since the Jewish hierarchs who controlled the temple served as lackeys to the Romans, Jesus’ cleansing the temple challenged not only the hierarchs’ authority, but also that of the Romans.

To cleanse the Temple of these money changers is an act of protest against something apparently, ... What Jesus does is not cleanse the Temple. He symbolically destroys it ...

The “Saturday Night Live” cold open began with the “Cleansing of the Temple,” a biblical tale in which Jesus Christ was enraged over business transactions within places of worship ...