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Does Jesus have anger issues?

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Something I have really been enjoying is preparing an emessage for each Thursday for St. Timothy Lutheran Church . Each week it's about one of Sunday's upcoming lessons. This exercise has helped me to focus my thoughts regarding the text. This Sunday it is John 2:13-22.  This is what I shared today regarding the above gospel reading. John 2:13-22 The Message 13-14 When the Passover Feast, celebrated each spring by the Jews, was about to take place, Jesus traveled up to Jerusalem. He found the Temple teeming with people selling cattle and sheep and doves. The loan sharks were also there in full strength. 15-17 Jesus put together a whip out of strips of leather and chased them out of the Temple, stampeding the sheep and cattle, upending the tables of the loan sharks, spilling coins left and right. He told the dove merchants, “ Get your things out of here! Stop turning my Father ’ s house into a shopping mall! ” That ’ s when his disciples remembered the Scriptu