Jesus Chases the Merchants and Money Changers from the Temple, thus Cleansing the Temple

Tissot, Jesus Chases the Merchants and Money Changers from the Temple, thus Cleansing the Temple

¹⁵On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, ¹⁶and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts.

¹⁷And as he taught them, he said, "Is it not written:

"'My house
will be called a
house of prayer
for all nations'?

But you have made it 'a den of robbers.'" Mark 11:15-17

Paintings by by James Jacques Tissot (French painter and illustrator, 1836-1902). Biography. Nearly all of Tissot's paintings of the Life of Christ (1884-1896) are rendered in opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper and are owned by the Brooklyn Museum, New York.

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Watching Holy Week Unfold with paintings by French painter James Jacques Tissot (1836-1902)

Jesus Chases the Merchants and Money Changers from the Temple, thus Cleansing the Temple

Watching Holy Week Unfold with paintings by James J. Tissot of the Life and Passion of Christ, Good Friday, and the Resurrection

Watching Holy Week Unfold
with paintings by French painter James Jacques Tissot (1836-1902)

Watching Holy Week Unfold
with paintings by James J. Tissot of the Life and Passion of Christ, Good Friday, and the Resurrection