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12–14. THE SECOND CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE
Mar 11:15-18; Luk 19:45-46
It is clear from the other Synoptists that the Cleansing of the Temple took place on Nisan 10, not on the day of the entry. St Mark says (Mat 11:11) that ‘when he had looked round about on all things there, the eventide being come he went back to Bethany.’ In point of time ‘the cursing of the fig-tree’ should precede the ‘Cleansing of the Temple.’ St Mark adds to this account ‘would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.’ St Matthew alone mentions the healing of the lame and the blind, and omits the incident of ‘the widow’s mite,’ recorded by the other Synoptists. The first ‘Cleansing of the Temple,’ at the commencement of our Lord’s ministry, is recorded Joh 2:13-17.