Sermon: Overturning the Tables as Performance Art

Published: 05 March 2024
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Sermon: Overturning the Tables as Performance Art by the Rev. Salying Wong
March 3, 2024
The famous scene for the overturning of the tables of the money changers is moved from the last days of Jesus' life in the synoptic gospels to the first days of Jesus' ministry in the Gospel of John. It is placed right after the sign of the changing of water into wine at Cana. In this position, it discourses with the questions that come out of Cana: Who is this that can change water into wine; who is this that gives such abundance; who is it that gives such good wine? Rather than say, "You den of robbers," to the money changers, Jesus speaks to the dove seller and says, "Stop making my father's house into a marketplace." This is not an accusation of malfeasance or a political statement about the economics of the temple. Jesus is declaring something about the temple and something about himself. What could these things be?


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