Event · Jesus and the Gospels
The temple cleared
The temple clearedMark 11:15–19AD 30 or AD 33Placement debated2 parallel accounts
Jesus drives out those buying and selling in the temple: "My house will be called a house of prayer."
- Main passage Mark 11:15–19
- Also told in Matthew 21:12–17Luke 19:45–48
- Related John 2:13–22
People Jesus
- Place in the order
- Disputed placement Where this belongs in the sequence is debated; the placement here is an editorial choice.
- Historical setting
- AD 30 or AD 33 Disputed date
Under Pontius Pilate (governor AD 26-36), on a Passover Friday. AD 30 and AD 33 are most often proposed.
Proposals: 7 April AD 30; 3 April AD 33
John tells of a temple clearing at the start of the ministry. Whether there were two clearings or John places one event thematically is debated.
Read it
Mark 11:15–19 WEB
15They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. 16He would not allow anyone to carry a container through the temple. 17He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers!” 18The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching. 19When evening came, he went out of the city.