1. Why did Jesus drive out those who were selling at the temple entrance? (10 points)
2. Provide context: what is the significance of the temple, buying and selling, and the statement ‘you have made it a den of robbers’. (10 points)
3. Application – how can an entrepreneur apply the lesson from Matthew 21? (20 points)
Response postings: Students must respond to two classmates and continue the discussions. In other words, each response post must include new thought, recommendations, or suggestions.
A simple “I agree” or “Great post” type of response offers litter value and will be grade at zero points.
Response postings must be between 150 and 250 words each. (5 points each)
Matthew 21:12-16 New International Version (NIV)
Jesus at the Temple
12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’” 14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant. 16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, “‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?
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