Here's what I want to know. Have we misread Jesus’ last week in Jerusalem. He gathers a crowd wherever he goes, and he goes and trashes the money-changers in the temple. But that would be a really dramatic gesture--the Jews had been a captured people for hundreds of years--they had no civil authority--only the priestly class, and profiting from religious sacrifices was widely practiced by priests among many cultures, and was often their primary source of income. This would make Jesus a cultural insurrectionist. He didn't need Judas to pick him out in a crowd.
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