The King and His Kingdom Part 77 Direct Confrontation Matthew 21:12-17 September 27, 2026 What you can see in the doctors eyes is something he knows that his family doesnt know: he caught the disease he went to heal and has one week
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The King and His Kingdom Part 77
“Direct Confrontation” Matthew 21:12-17 September 27, 2026<br>
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“… What you can see in the doctor's eyes is something he knows that his family doesn't know: he caught the disease he went to heal and has one week to live.”
– John Piper<br>
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Matthew 21:12-17 (ESV) – [12] And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. [13] He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”<br>
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[14] And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. [15] But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant,<br>
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[16] and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?” [17] And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.<br>
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The temple had become a marketplace.
Massive price mark-ups
Deceitful money exchanges
Fraud, extortion, and theft<br>
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John 2:13-17 – [13] The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. [14] In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.<br>
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[15] And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. [16] And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.” [17] His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”<br>
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“Instead of praying for the people, the priests were preying on the people!”
– Warren Wiersbe<br>
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[14] And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
Jesus allowed outcasts to enter the temple.
Jesus healed them.
This is the only miracle in Matthew that occurs in Jerusalem.<br>
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[15] But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, [16] and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”<br>
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The religious leaders were insulted by:
The power of Jesus
The praise of Jesus<br>
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Matthew 21:16 – and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”
Psalm 8:2 – Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.<br>
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Matthew 21:17 – And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.<br>
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Resources (1):
J. Vernon McGee. “Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, Volume IV, Matthew-Romans.” Thomas Nelson Publishing, 1982.
John MacArthur. “The MacArthur New Testament Commentary.” Moody Publishers, 1985.
Warren W. Wiersbe. “The Wiersbe Bible Commentary, The Complete New Testament in One Volume.” David C. Cook, 2007.
David Platt. “Christ Centered Exposition: Exalting Jesus in Matthew.” Series Editors: David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida. B&H Publishing Group, 2013.
Charles H. Spurgeon. “Commentary on Matthew: The Gospel of the Kingdom.” The Banner of Truth Trust, first publication 1893, reprinted 2010, 2013.<br>
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Resources (2):
John Piper, “O, That You Knew the Terms of Peace!” Desiring God, April 12, 1981. https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/o-that-you-knew-the-terms-of-peace<br>
