يسوع يطرد من الهيكل الباعة والصيارفة ويقول لهم لا تَجْعَلُوا بَيْتَ أَبِي بَيْتًا لِلتِّجَارَة
إنجيل القدّيس يوحنّا02/من13حتى25/:”قَرُبَ فِصْحُ اليَهُود، فَصَعِدَ يَسُوعُ إِلى أُورَشَلِيم. ووَجَدَ في الهَيْكَلِ بَاعَةَ البَقَرِ والغَنَمِ والحَمَام، والصَّيَارِفَةَ جَالِسِين. فَجَدَلَ سَوطًا مِنْ حِبَال، وطَرَدَ الجَمِيعَ مِنَ الهَيْكَل، طَرَدَ الغَنَمَ والبَقَرَ، وبَعْثَرَ نُقُودَ الصَّيَارِفَة، وقَلَبَ طَاوِلاتِهِم. وقَالَ لِبَاعَةِ الحَمَام: «إِرْفَعُوا هذَا الحَمَامَ مِنْ هُنَا، ولا تَجْعَلُوا بَيْتَ أَبِي بَيْتًا لِلتِّجَارَة». فَتَذَكَّرَ تَلامِيذُهُ أَنَّهُ جَاءَ في الكِتَاب: «أَلْغيَرَةُ على بَيْتِكَ سَتَأْكُلُنِي!». أَجَابَ اليَهُودُ وقَالُوا لِيَسُوع: «أَيَّ آيَةٍ تُرِينَا وأَنْتَ تَفْعَلُ هذَا؟». أَجَابَ يَسُوعُ وقَالَ لَهُم: «إِهْدِمُوا هذَا الهَيْكَل، وأَنَا أُقِيمُهُ في ثَلاثَةِ أَيَّام». فَقَالَ اليَهُود: «بُنِيَ هذَا الهَيْكَلُ في سِتٍّ وأَرْبَعِينَ سَنَة، وتُقِيمُهُ أَنْتَ في ثَلاثَةِ أَيَّام؟». أَمَّا هُوَ فَكَانَ يَتَكَلَّمُ عَلى هَيْكَلِ جَسَدِهِ. ولَمَّا قَامَ مِنْ بَينِ الأَمْوَات، تَذَكَّرَ تَلامِيذُهُ كَلامَهُ ذَاك، فَآمَنُوا بِٱلكِتَاب، وبِٱلكَلِمَةِ الَّتِي قَالَهَا يَسُوع. وبَيْنَمَا كَانَ يَسُوعُ في أُورَشَلِيم، في عِيدِ الفِصْح، آمَنَ بِٱسْمِهِ كَثِيرُون، لأَنَّهُم رَأَوا ٱلآيَاتِ الَّتِي كَانَ يَصْنَعُهَا. أَمَّا هُوَ فَمَا كَانَ يَأْمَنُ عَلى نَفْسِهِ مِنْهُم، لأَنَّهُ كَانَ يَعْرِفُهُم جَميعًا. ولا يُعْوِزُهُ شَاهِدٌ عَلى الإِنْسَان، لأَنَّهُ عَليمٌ بِمَا في الإِنْسَان.”
يا إخوَتِي، إِطْرَحُوا عَنْكُم كُلَّ شَرٍّ، وكُلَّ غِشّ، ورِيَاء، وحَسَد، وكُلَّ نَمِيمَة
رسالة القدّيس بطرس الأولى02/من01ذحتى10/:”يا إخوَتِي، إِطْرَحُوا عَنْكُم كُلَّ شَرٍّ، وكُلَّ غِشّ، ورِيَاء، وحَسَد، وكُلَّ نَمِيمَة. وكأَطْفَالٍ مَولُودِينَ حَدِيثًا، تُوقُوا إِلى اللَّبَنِ الرُّوحِيِّ الصَّافِي، لِكَي تَنْمُوا بِهِ لِلخَلاص، هذَا إِنْ ذُقْتُمْ أَنَّ الرَّبَّ طَيِّبٌ، كَمَا يَقُولُ الكِتَاب. وَبِمَا أَنَّكُم قَدِ ٱقْتَرَبْتُم مِنهُ، هُوَ الحَجَرُ الحَيُّ المَرذُولُ عِنْدَ النَّاس، وأَمَّا عِندَ اللهِ فهُوَ المُخْتَارُ الكرِيم، فَكُونوا أَنْتُم أَيضًا مَبْنِيِّين، كَحِجَارَةٍ حَيَّة، بَيتًا رُوحِيًّا، لِتَصِيرُوا جَمَاعةً كَهَنُوتِيَّةً مُقَدَّسَة، فَتُقَرِّبُوا ذَبَائِحَ روحِيَّةً مَرْضِيَّةً للهِ بيَسُوعَ المَسِيح. لِذلِكَ وَرَدَ في الكِتَاب: «هَا إِنِّي أَضَعُ في صِهْيُونَ حَجَرَ زاوِيَةٍ مُخْتَارًا كَرِيْمًا، وَالمُؤْمِنُ بهِ لا يُخْزَى». فَالكَرَامَةُ إِذًا لَكُم، أَيُّهَا الْمُؤْمِنُون. أَمَّا لِغَيْرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ «فَإِنَّ الحَجَرَ الَّذي رذَلَهُ البنَّاؤُونَ هُوَ صَارَ رأْسًا لِلزَّاوِيَة، وحَجَرَ عَثْرةٍ وصَخْرَةَ شَكّ». وهُم يَعْثُرُون، لأَنَّهُم يَعْصُونَ الكَلِمَة. وهذَا هُوَ مَصِيرُهُم! أَمَّا أَنْتُم فَإِنَّكم ذُرِّيَّةٌ مُخْتَارَة، وكَهَنُوتٌ مُلُوكِيّ، وأُمَّةٌ مُقَدَّسَة، وشَعْبٌ مُقْتَنَى، لِتُخْبِرُوا بِأَفْضَالِ مَنْ دَعَاكُم مِنَ الظُّلْمَةِ إِلى نُورِهِ العَجِيب، أَنتُمُ الَّذِينَ لَمْ تَكُونُوا مِن قَبْلُ شَعْبًا، أَمَّا الآنَ فأَنْتُم شَعْبُ الله، ولَمْ تَكُونُوا مَرحُومِين، أَمَّا الآنَ فأَنْتُم مَرْحُومُون”.
Jesus Droves Sellers and Money Changers Out Of the Temple Saying: Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 02/13-25:”The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’ His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’The Jews then said to him, ‘What sign can you show us for doing this?’Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’The Jews then said, ‘This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?’But he was speaking of the temple of his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. When he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing. But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to testify about anyone; for he himself knew what was in everyone.”
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander
First Letter of Peter 02/01-10:”Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in scripture: ‘See, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.’ To you then who believe, he is precious; but for those who do not believe, ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the very head of the corner’, and ‘A stone that makes them stumble, and a rock that makes them fall.’ They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”