What does Jesus reproach the merchants of oxen, sheep and doves, and the money-changers in the Temple?

Even if what they’re doing is useful, so that the pilgrims who come to the Temple can observe the legal prescriptions of the Law, they’re taking advantage of it to make money, and thus diverting the Temple from its purpose.

The Temple is the place of prayer. ” My Father’s house”, says Jesus. The Temple is the place where all Jews went to pray every year. But with Jesus everything changed.

With these words: “Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up”, Jesus presents himself as the new Temple. It is He who will be killed and who will rise again on the third day. You no longer have to come to the Temple in Jerusalem to pray to God. It is in the Person of Jesus that we now encounter God, our heavenly Father. Jesus is the only Mediator between God and man.

Many people who call themselves Christians today do not believe in the Divinity of Jesus. They let themselves be deceived by the denomination “Son of God.” They tell themselves that if Jesus is the Son of God, He cannot be God, since He is His Son. But within the Trinity, we have to believe that the Father is God, the Son is God and the Holy Spirit is God.

And since it was the Son, the second Person of the Holy Trinity, who became Man, Jesus is not a human person, but one of the three Divine Persons, the Word of God, the second Person of the Holy Trinity, who took on our humanity. In Jesus, there is not one Divine person and one human person. In Jesus there is only the second Person of the Holy Trinity, with Divine and human natures. Jesus is truly God, the Word of God who took on our humanity.

Even if we say that Jesus is the Son of God, we must hold, in faith, that He is God and just as much God as our Father in Heaven and the Holy Spirit.

So we can reread the Gospels and see that all Jesus’ actions are God’s actions.

But that’s not all. For the Lord has willed that through baptism “in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” we become adopted sons of God. There is only one Son, Jesus, but in Him we are sons in the Son, adopted sons, children of God.

And since, through baptism, the Holy Spirit has made his dwelling in us, every baptized person has become the Temple of the Holy Spirit. It is truly through the Holy Spirit, who dwells in our souls, that we can seek Jesus, find Him and seek Him again, so that He may lead us to our heavenly Father.

May this season of Lent be a time of grace, to strengthen our faith in Jesus, the Son of God, God Himself, and to learn more and more to live with Him, from Him and in Him, with the Holy Spirit who has made His dwelling place in us.