RELS 302 Lecture : Lecture Notes February 27
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Jesus goes to the temple and overturns the tables. Not cleansing the temple, he is condemning, pronouncing judgment on the temple. Problem is that they are crooks outside the temple but behave piously in the temple. Also, they are doing this in court of genetics, where gentiles were allowed to pray. It is not about signs of the world of the age. No signs of the end of the age, end of the world. Judas was trying to force jesus to strike out as a messianic warrior. He told them he was going to die. He was accused of refusing to pay taxes to caesar. Barabbas is exactly what they have been falsely accusing jesus of being. Ben = son of (aramiac) bar abba = son of the father. Pilate had to give them legal authority to kill jesus. The patibulum (crossbeam) was the part of the cross that had to be carried.
