Sheer zeal for your house has eaten me up.—Ps. 69:9.
Early in his ministry, in the Passover season of 30 C.E., Jesus and his disciples came to Jerusalem and saw in the temple “those selling cattle and sheep and doves and the money brokers in their seats.” What was Jesus’ response, and what impression did it make on his disciples? (John 2:13-17) What Jesus did and said on that occasion fittingly brought to the disciples’ mind the prophetic words of today’s text. Why? Because what Jesus did involved a great deal of risk and danger. After all, the temple authorities—the priests, the scribes, and others—were behind the scandalous profit-making business taking place there. To expose and disrupt their scheme, Jesus was pitting himself against the religious establishment of the day. As the disciples correctly assessed the situation, ‘zeal for God’s house,’ or zeal for true worship, was clearly in evidence. w10 12/15 1:7, 8
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