10 Then Jesus made a scourge of cords, as he did once before, and rushed among the merchantmen, threw all their money on the floor;
11 Threw wide the cages of the doves, and cut the cords that held the bleating lambs and set them free.
12 And then he drove the merchants from the place, and with a clean, new broom he swept the floors.
13 Chief priests and scribes were filled with wrath, but feared to touch or even to rebuke the Lord, for all the people stood in his defense.
14 And Jesus taught the people all day long and healed a multitude of those diseased,
15 And when the evening came he went again to Bethany.
CHAPTER 153.
The Christines go to Jerusalem. They note the withered fig tree; its symbolic meaning. Jesus teaches in the temple. Is censured by the priests. Relates a parable of a rich man’s feast.
On Tuesday, early in the day, the master and the twelve went to Jerusalem.
2 And as they went the twelve observed the tree to which the Lord had talked the day before, and lo, the leaves were withered, just as if they had been scorched with fire.