@freemo
Got it. I think Jesus's interpretation of his actions in his words would provide more clarity as well as the textual, cultural, and historical context - they had taken the place of prayer, specifically I believe the part that was open to non Jews, to make it a marketplace. If I recall correctly, they had effectively put barriers in the way of Jews worshiping, and stopped gentiles from being able to pray there at all, in order to profit off of the people's desire to worship God. Jesus wasn't objecting to all marketplaces, but one that took advantage of and obstructed worship of God.

Mark 11:17 And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

Many pick things out of context to force fit the Bible to say what they think, including Christians. It's quite easy to do, as really understanding one sentence (in the Bible, in a book, in the newspaper) may require lots of reading and it's more comfortable to go with confirmation bias rather than put in a lot of hard work to find out that we're in conflict with biblical teaching.

I once caused quite an angry response when I was teaching the Sermon on the Mount at an American evangelical church and got to Jesus teaching "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth...but in heaven" and asked what that meant for how we view work, money, and retirement.

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