Some years back, the Reverend Wes Denyer was asked by a lawyer, Why do you think Jesus was arrested and crucified? There may be many reasons why this happened, but certainly one contributing factor was the event that we have come to call Jesus cleansing the Temple. Why was Jesus so upset that he began to overturn the tables of the money changers and the merchants outside the Temple? Was it for the reasons we usually think of, or was there a deeper theological significance behind this dramatic episode, which occurred so close to the end of Jesus earthly ministry?