... Babylonian Talmud: Baba Bathra 171         Previous Folio / Baba Bathra Contents / Tractate List / Navigate Site Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Baba Bathra Folio 171a [In the case of] a court of law, one can well understand,1  because it has the power and authority to confiscate2  money;3  but [as regards] witnesses, who had once performed their mission,4 ...

... for the full amount of a debt11  [a quittance] may be written; as in the case of R. Isaac b. Joseph. He claimed [a sum of] money from R. Abba whom he sued12  before R. Hanina b. Papi. [When] he13  said to him,14  'Give me my money', [the other] replied to him, 'Return to me my deed and you will receive your money'. 'I lost your deed', said [R. Isaac] to him, '[but] I will write...

... is the reason? [A person] might sometimes sell [a plot of] land to another in Nisan and write [the deed] for him in Tishri; and in the meantime he might obtain some money and repurchase it from him.26  But when Tishri arrived he27  would produce it28  and say, 'I have [subsequently] bought it from you again'.29  If so, [in the case of] bonds of indebtedness also, one might...

... sometimes borrow [money] in Nisan and write the bond for the creditor30  in Tishri, and in the meantime he would obtain some money and repay him. When [however the debtor] requested the return of his31  bond, he would reply to him, 'I lost it', and would [instead] write out for him a quittance. When [later] the date of payment32  arrived he would produce it33  and plead 'You have...

... accordance with the ruling of R. Johanan and R. Lakish. From Palestine to Babylon. The creditor. Consume other people's money. The creditor. Since he has the benefit of the transaction. Hence he must beat the burden of preserving the receipt. Since a creditor, who is justly entitled to seize any real estate sold by the debtor after the date of the loan, might fraudulently lay claim to lands which the...

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... not right to accept [the misappropriated articles] from them, and he who accepts from them does not obtain the approval of the Sages.' An objection was raised [from the following:] 'If a father left [to his children] money accumulated by usury, even if the heirs know that the money was [paid as] interest, they are not liable to restore the money [to the respective borrowers].8  Now, does this...

.... Come and hear: Robbers and usurers even after they have collected the money must return it.16  But what collection could there have been in the case of robbers. for surely if they misappropriated anything they committed robbery, and if they had not misappropriated anything they were not robbers at all? It must therefore read as follows: 'Robbers, that is to say usurers, even after they have...

... already collected the money, must return it.'17  — It may, however, be said that though they have to make restitution of the money it would not be accepted from them. If so why have they to make restitution? — [To make it quite evident that out of their own free will] they are prepared to fulfil their duty before Heaven.18 Come and hear: 'For shepherds, tax collectors and revenue...

... violates the laws of Israel. Hag. 26a. [I.e. not to retain it with him, despite the refusal of the owners to accept it (v. Tosaf.).] B.M. 62a. Does this not prove that the misappropriated money if restored would be accepted from them? As it is only in such a case that the restored money will not be accepted. Tosef B.M. VIII. Does this not prove that misappropriated articles if restored would be accepted...

... integration. Now, this has been a long footnote - if George Bernard Shaw can be forgiven, and not only forgiven but given a Nobel prize, then you can forgive me too. And I don't ask for a Nobel prize. Even if they gave me the prize, I would refuse it. It is not for me. It is too full of blood. The money given with the Nobel prize is soaked in blood, because the man, Nobel, was a manufacturer of bombs. He...

... earned his immeasurable money in the first world war selling arms to both camps. I would not even like to touch his money. In fact I have not touched money for many years, because I don't have to. Somebody always takes care of money for me - and money is always dirty, not only Nobel prize money. The man who founded the Nobel prize was really feeling guilty, and just to get rid of his guilt he founded...

... the Nobel prize. It was a good gesture, but only like killing a man and then saying to him, "Sorry, sir, please excuse me." I would not accept that blood money. George Bernard Shaw was not only respected but given a Nobel prize, and his small books have such long introductions that you wonder whether the book was written for the introduction, or the introduction for the book. As far as I...

... age but he was called "Magga Baba." Magga simply means "big cup." He always used to keep his magga, his cup, in his hand. He used it for everything - for his tea, his milk, his food, for the money people gave him, or whatsoever the moment demanded. All he possessed was his magga and that is why he was known as Magga Baba. Baba is a respectful word. It simply means "...

... higga hee hee." Then he would wait and again ask, "Hee hee hee?" It seemed as if he was asking, "Have you understood?" And the poor people would say, "Yes, Baba, yes." Then he would show his magga and make the sign. This sign in India means money. It comes from the old days when there were real gold and silver coins. People used to check whether it was real gold or...

... not, by throwing the coin to the ground and listening to its sound. Real gold has its own sound, and nobody can fake it. So Magga Baba would show his magga with one hand and with the other give the sign for money, meaning, "If you have understood then give something to me." And people would give. I would laugh myself to tears because he had not said anything. But he was not greedy for...

... money. He would take from one person and give it to another. His magga was always empty. Once in a while there would be something in it, but rarely. It was a passage: money would come into it and go; food would come into it and go; and it always remained empty. He was always cleaning it. I have seen him morning, evening and afternoon, always cleaning it. I want to confess to you - "you"...

... moral and political meaning of the symbols, and not with their philosophical and spiritual meanings, still the divine ever mingles with the human; with the earthly the spiritual intermixes; and there is something spiritual in the commonest duties of life. The nations are not bodies-politic alone, but also souls-politic; and woe to that people which, seeking the material only, forgets that it has a...

... flesh of the State. The body of the commonwealth becomes a mass of corruption, like a living carcass rotten with syphilis. All unsound theories in the end develop themselves in one foul and loathsome disease or other of the body politic. The State, like the man, must use constant effort to stay in the paths of virtue and manliness. The p. 51 habit of electioneering and begging for office culminates in...

... himself; and therefore he will seek to attain office by ignoble means, as he will seek to attain any other coveted object, -- land, money, or reputation. At length, office and honor are divorced. The place that the small and shallow, the knave or the trickster, is deemed competent and fit to fill, ceases to be worthy the ambition of the great and capable; or if not, these shrink from a contest, the...

... dispenser of patronage, chiefly to the most unworthy; and men are bribed with offices instead of money, to the greater ruin of the Commonwealth. The Divine in human nature disappears, and interest, greed, and selfishness takes it place. That is a sad and true allegory which represents the companions of Ulysses changed by the enchantments of Circe into swine. *      * ...

... appealing to all the baser elements of the popular nature; by moneyed corporations; by those enriched by the depreciation of government securities or paper; by small attorneys, schemers, money-jobbers, speculators and adventurers -- an ignoble oligarchy, enriched by the distresses of the State, and fattened on the miseries of the people. Then all the deceitful visions of equality and the rights of man end...

... same time, filled with all the narrow conceptions and bitter intolerance of political bigotry. These die; and the world is none the wiser for what they have said and done. Their names sink in the bottomless pit of oblivion; but their acts of folly or knavery curse the body politic and at last prove its ruin. Politicians, in a free State, are generally hollow, heartless, and selfish. Their own...

... in coin. The illustrious examples of the Past of a nation, the memories and immortal thoughts of her great and wise thinkers, statesmen, and heroes, are the invaluable legacy of that Past to the Present and Future. And all these have not only the values of the loftier and more excellent and priceless kind, but also an actual money-value, since it is only when co-operating with or aided or enabled...

... fortune. It is not honest to receive anything from another without returning him an equivalent therefor. The gamester who wins the money of another is dishonest. There should be no such thing as bets and gaming among Masons: for no honest man should desire that for nothing which belongs to another. The merchant who sells an inferior article for a sound price, the speculator who makes the distresses and...

..., and claim that by the rules of equity administered in His great chancery, this house in which we die, this land we devise to our heirs, this money that p. 118 enriches those who survive to bear our name, is his and not ours, and we in that forum are only his trustees. For it is most certain that God is just, and will sternly enforce every such trust; and that to all whom we despoil, to all whom we...

... laments over an empty exchequer. He who requites my favors with ingratitude adds to, instead of diminishing, my wealth; and he who cannot return a favor is equally poor, whether his inability arises from poverty of spirit, sordidness of soul, or pecuniary indigence. If he is wealthy who hath large sums invested, and the mass of whose fortune consists in obligations that bind other men to pay him money...

..., earnest to do good, easy and contented, and well-wishers of mankind. They protect the feeble against the strong, and the defenceless against rapacity and craft. They succor and comfort the poor, and are the guardians, under God, of his innocent and helpless wards. They value friends more than riches or fame, and gratitude more than money or power. They are noble by God's patent, and their escutcheons...

... let others reap the harvest of their labors. He who does good, only to be repaid in kind, or in thanks and gratitude, or in reputation and the world's praise, is like him who loans his money, that he may, after certain months, receive it back with interest. To be repaid for eminent services with slander, obloquy, or ridicule, or at best with stupid indifference or cold ingratitude, as it is common...

..., and deliberately invents and industriously circulates the most unmitigated and baseless falsehoods, to coin money for those who pursue it as a trade, or to effect a temporary result in the wars of faction. We need not enlarge upon these evils. They are apparent to all and lamented over by all, and it is the duty of a Mason to do all p. 335 in his power to lessen, if not to remove them. With the...

... great object of the Mysteries of Isis, and in general of all the Mysteries, was a great and truly politic one. It was to ameliorate our race, to perfect its manners and morals, and to restrain society by stronger bonds than those that human laws impose. They were the invention of that ancient science and wisdom which exhausted all its resources to make legislation perfect; and of that philosophy which...

... betrayed their country, who had surrendered an advantageous post or place, or the vessels of the State, to the enemy; all who had supplied the enemy with money; and in general, all who had come short of their duties as honest men and good citizens, were excluded from the Mysteries of Eleusis. To be admitted there, one must have lived equitably, and with sufficient good fortune not to be regarded as hated...

..., -- most men flee in abject terror, to return and live, respectable and influential, when the danger has passed away. But the old Knightly spirit of devotion and disinterestedness and contempt p. 580 of death still lives, and is not extinct in the human heart. Everywhere a few are found to stand firmly and unflinchingly at their posts, to front and defy the danger, not for money, or to be honored for it...

... his sensual appetites and baser passions are not governed by, but domineer over his moral sense and reason, the animal over the divine, the earthly over the spiritual, both points of the compass remaining below the Square? What a hideous mockery to call one "Brother," whom he maligns to the Profane, lends money unto at usury, defrauds in trade, or plunders at law by chicanery? VIRTUE, TRUTH, HONOR...

... separate. And that is the strategy of all those who have been lustful for power, down the ages: that means are means. and ends are ends. Means are useful because they lead you to the end. If they don't lead to your end, they are meaningless. In this way, they have destroyed all that is really significant. And they have imposed things on you which are absolutely insignificant. Money has a point. A...

... not appeal to the mediocre at all because he counts things in terms of money, position, power. Is your poetry going to make you the prime minister of the country? - then it is meaningful. But in fact your poetry may make you just a beggar, because who is going to purchase your poetry? I am acquainted with many kinds of geniuses who are living like beggars for the simple reason that they did not...

... painting for the churches his whole life; painting on church walls and church ceilings. He broke his backbone painting church ceilings, because to paint a ceiling you have to lie down on a high stool while you paint. It is a very uncomfortable position, and for days together, months together.... But he was earning money, and he was earning respect. He was painting angels, Christ, God creating the world...

.... His famous painting is God creating the world. Vincent van Gogh starts a totally new dimension. He could not sell a single painting in his whole life. Now, who will say that his painting has any point? Not a single person could see that there was anything in his paintings. His younger brother used to send him money; enough so that he did not die of starvation, just enough for seven days' food every...

... week - because if he gave him enough for a whole month he would finish it within two or three days, and the remaining days he would be starving. Every week he would send money to him. And what Vincent van Gogh was doing was for four days he would eat, and for the three days in between those four days he was saving money for paints, canvasses. This is something totally different from Michelangelo, who...

... earned enough money, who became a rich person. He sold all his paintings. They were made to be sold, it was business. Of course he was a great painter, so even paintings that were going to be sold came out beautifully. But if he had had the guts of a Vincent van Gogh, he would have enriched the whole world. Three days starving, and van Gogh would purchase the paints and canvasses. His younger brother...

..., hearing that not a single painting had sold, gave some money to a man - a friend of his not known to Vincent van Gogh - and told him to go and purchase at least one painting: "That will give him some satisfaction. The poor man is dying; the whole day he is painting, starving for painting but nobody is ready to purchase his painting - nobody sees anything in it." Because to see something in...

... care about you, whether you understand or not." Now, this kind of paintings you cannot sell. The man his brother had sent came. Van Gogh was very happy: at last somebody had come to purchase. But soon his happiness turned into despair because the man looked around, picked one painting and gave the money. Vincent van Gogh said, "But do you understand the painting? You have picked it up so...

... casually, you have not looked; I have hundreds of paintings. You have not even bothered to look around; you have simply picked one that was accidentally in front of you. I suspect that you are sent by my brother. Put the painting back, take your money. I will not sell the painting to a man who has no eyes for painting. And tell my brother never to do such a thing again." The man was puzzled how he...

... managed to figure it out. He said, "You don't know me, how did you figure it out?" He said, "That's too simple. I know my brother wants me to feel some consolation. He must have manipulated you - and this money belongs to him - because I can see that you are blind as far as paintings are concerned. And I am not one to sell paintings to blind people; I cannot exploit a blind man and sell...

..., with the whole life condensed: a new dimension opening. Okay. You can ask your second question. Question 2: OSHO, ON THE FACE OF AMERICAN MONEY IS THE PHRASE, "IN GOD WE TRUST." THE PRIESTS HAVE LIED AND SAID THAT THERE IS A GOD. THE POLITICIANS HAVE LIED AND SAID THAT THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION AND CIVIL RIGHTS WOULD ENSURE SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR ALL. HOW CAN I NOW TRUST IN A RELIGIONLESS...

... Oregon doing? He should declare America an illegal country! - because this is mixing state and religion. If Rajneeshpuram is declared an illegal city... and we have not done anything like that: saying, "In God we trust" on the dollar, you are mixing God with money, mixing state with religion. This attorney general of Oregon can make history. He should declare the whole American nation illegal...

... dirtiest thing. Not that I am against money but it is the most dirty thing. All kinds of people... somebody may have cancer, somebody may have tuberculosis, somebody may have AIDS... and who knows what he has been doing with his notes? Anything is possible, because people are so perverted, they can do anything with the bank notes. I said, "I am not going to touch them" - and I stopped touching...

... clothes. When I was not in the room he would just take anything. He would take my shawl and go for a walk, so when I came back the shawl would be gone. I would say, "It will come back, soon it will return." To save money from being taken by him I used to deposit it with him and say, "You keep this money, because if I keep it you will take it anyway. And then it will be difficult to know...

... how much you have taken and how to ask you for it. It looks awkward. You just take it. It is this much: you take it!" He said, "You are clever. This way I have to return the whole money whenever you need it." But after four, five months... because whenever and wherever he was, with whomsoever he lived - his family or friends, or in the hostels - everybody was condemning him. But I...

... made available to you. But in Zurich Sheela has become incredibly criminal. She married a Swiss sannyasin. She was already married to an American sannyasin here -- this is bigamy. And she married this Swiss sannyasin because he had the power to take the money out; the money belonged to the Swiss Zurich commune, so he had taken out the money.... Q:* HM MM. DO WE KNOW HOW MUCH WAS TAKEN OUT? A:* No...

...... are not known where they are. Q:* IT IS REPORTED THAT SHE WOULD LIKE TO OPEN A GAMBLING CASINO. WITH YOUR MONEY? A:* Perhaps, because she must have stolen as much money as she could. In Europe we have big communes, they have donated most of the money for this commune to happen, almost two hundred million dollars. So in Europe we have enough money in the communes, and she was moving around Europe...

... lately in all the communes. From there she can get money. But we will be preventing; we are informing every commune that no money should be given to her. But she may have already, before she left, she may have already shifted, siphoned money into some directions which we will discover soon. Our expert in finances is coming within two days, who will be able to find every single paise if it has...

... disappeared from anywhere -- either from here or from Europe. Q:* HOW MUCH MONEY DID SHE TAKE OUT OF ZURICH? I THOUGHT I UNDERSTOOD YOU TO... YOU CITED A FIGURE OF SOME MONEY SHE TOOK OUT OF THE BANK IN ZURICH. A:* No. That was not big -- her husband has taken -- that was not... Q:* BUT THAT WAS YOUR MONEY, OR THE MONEY OF THE COMMUNE? A:* Of the commune. Q:* OF THE COMMUNE. BUT YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH OF...

... THAT MONEY SHE STOLE IN ZURICH. A:* It was not much... HASYA: We're not sure, but I think something like a thousand francs. A:* Five thousand at the most. It was not much. It was not much. Q:* SHE DIDN'T GET HER HANDS ON MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THERE? A:* That is possible, because she has left the commune in fifty-five million dollar debt. And she never said it to me. Just few days before, I had asked...

.... This will be endangering all the nearby people, this will be endangering our commune, and I will not support that. So you stop that. So exactly on 4th I came to know, and on 5th, they were going to have the conference, and it had to be cancelled. I inquired because of that complex, that how much money you have put in that complex, and what you are going to do it now, because AIDS home I will not...

... the Oregonians, between the commune and the Americans. Now that they are gone the rift need not exist. For example, I have advised my people that the City of Rajneesh should be renamed again Antelope. It is not good to hurt unnecessarily neighbors, and I have told Antelope people that you should purchase your properties back. Although we have improved your properties -- we have put much money in...

... is simply destructive. The whole history is full of politics and destruction. So I am absolutely apolitical. So even to me she lied that, "It is not for political purposes. In fact, we have surplus money out of the annual festival and we want to do some humanitarian work." I said, "If it is humanitarian work, good." So those three thousand street people were brought in, but to...

... STOLEN SOME MONEY OR PUT SOME MONEY IN A SWISS BANK ACCOUNT. BUT YOU MENTIONED THIS DEBT OF FIFTY-FIVE MILLION U.S. DOLLARS. COULD YOU COMMENT ON THAT? A:* It will take a little time, but certainly she must have taken money -- because from where she can get money for twenty people to travel, to stay in Switzerland or in Germany -- all their expenses? She must have been siphoning money for at least two...

... months they were preparing the ground. Otherwise there is no reason for Puja to be married to a Swiss sannyasin. There was no need at all. So for at least two months they were in preparation. In these two months they must have siphoned money. Our money expert will be here who will be looking into... because we have several corporations. Here we have several corporations, in Europe we have several...

... corporations. We have a international service corporation. So from what corporation she has managed money.... Right now they have looked only in the Foundation copies, but it says only expenses. But they may not be expenses. They may have been simply sent to Switzerland and they may not have been authentically expenses. But it is certain she cannot survive without money, and she has no money. And the...

... remaining others don't have money either. They had, certainly, a bank account in Switzerland and they were telling me that it is for me. In case I have to leave America I will need some money, and Switzerland will be the best place. But the bank account was in Sheela and Savita's name. Q:* AND THEY HAVE NOT RESIGNED FROM THAT? A:* Just they have never even told me how much money. I asked again and again...

..., "The account is for me, but at least I should be told how much money is in that account -- because it is in your two persons' name. I cannot take a single dollar out of it. You can take the whole account, and I don't even know how much has been taken." And they said, "We will tell you. We will find out." And this and that. But never. In these four years they were collecting money...

... question of trust? We are saying, "You purchase your lands and we are giving you at the same price as we had purchased it from you four years before. In four years the prices have gone high. We have renovated your houses, we have put money in your lands. We have made your dirty village in a beautiful place. And we are ready to give it in the same price as we purchased." And even if she says...

... grows loathsome to you. What is your happiness?... so mundane, so ordinary, so repetitive: there is nothing great in it. But nobody thinks about what his happiness consists of. Somebody's happiness is good food, somebody's happiness is sexuality, somebody's happiness is accumulation of money, somebody's happiness is fame, somebody's happiness is power. Jayesh was telling me the other day that one of...

... blissfulness: what can you give? All that you have is money, and money is soaked with the blood of those same people. It is a strange game: first make them beggars - then give them alms; and you are virtuous. Give something to an orphanage, and you are virtuous. And most probably that orphanage is having your children, produced by prostitutes. You produce those orphans. You talk against prostitution - if you...

... ask people you will not find a single person who is in favor of prostitution - then why do prostitutes exist? Who goes there? Poor people cannot go - they don't have the money. It is the rich people, the middle class people who can afford to go. The middle class people have to go to the prostitutes. The rich class people don't go there. They have created a new class of prostitutes:call-girls. You...

... freedom, that destroys you? Leo Tolstoy has a beautiful story: A poor tailor used to purchase a ticket every month for the lottery. He had been doing it for twenty years but the lottie never came up in his name. His family, his friends got tired, and told him, "Why do you waste money? You are so poor, but the ticket has to be purchased. It has become almost a religious ritual." But one day the...

... miracle happened. A black limousine came to the poor tailor's shop and a man came out with a big bag - the tailor had won the lottery! He could not believe it, but he had to believe it when the money was delivered to him. He was so happy. He locked the door of his shop and threw the key in a well, because now what is the point. He has so much money, he can live his whole life comfortably, enjoying all...

... that is available in the world. But he was not aware that money goes very fast - in prostitutes, in alcohol, in gambling. All kinds of things that he had never imagined, he went through. He lost his health and within two years all the money was gone. He came back to his shop. People said, "What happened? You look so old!" He said, "That goddamned lottery that destroyed my health, that...

... took me to places where I should never have been. But what can you do with money? It is a constant temptation. All is lost; Please help me to find my key." Some young man went into the well, searched for his key; the key was found, he opened his shop, started his work. But just out of old habit, he still continued to purchase one ticket every month. Now people said, "Why are you doing it...

..., just as flowers come from the inner juices of the tree.... If your happiness is a flower of your being, it justifies existence. All your so-called happiness of power, and money, and prestige is just a migraine. THE HOUR WHEN YOU SAY: 'WHAT GOOD IS MY REASON? DOES IT LONG FOR KNOWLEDGE AS THE LION FOR ITS FOOD? IT IS POVERTY AND DIRT AND A MISERABLE EASE!' An authentic, reasoning man is always in...

... comfortable idea, you should feel contempt for it. The pope runs a bank; Jesus was a beggar. The pope's bank has been found guilty of changing black money into white - millions of dollars - that is its whole business, and those millions of black dollars, changed into white money, are coming from the sale of heroin and other drugs. The pope goes on giving sermons against drugs, and the whole Vatican is...

... supported by the money that comes from the drug sales. The Italian government has issued an arrest warrant for the director of the pope's bank. But they cannot enter the Vatican, because that eight square mile area is considered to be an independent country. It is in the middle of Rome. The man who was the head of the bank was only a bishop. Rather than handing him over to the police he has been promoted...

... were drinking without any problem. They have power - the prohibition is for others; nobody can prevent them. This is meanness. Every political leader exploits his country. He promises the country that he is going to do great things. Those promises are never fulfilled. On the other hand, he goes on filling his treasury with as much money as possible. Those who give money are favored by licenses, by...

... new permissions to make factories. Those who don't give money are arrested, their houses are searched, and just a small loophole is enough to torture them. Man's meanness is tremendous: One of the prime ministers of India, Indira Gandhi, forced people like Jay Prakash and thousands of others into jail. It was the jail that killed him, because he could not get the right treatment. His kidneys were...

... precincts. And this all came about in the following manner: During the Asmonean dynasty the Jews coined their own silver money, and it had become the practice to require the temple dues of one-half shekel and all other temple fees to be paid with this Jewish coin. This regulation necessitated that money-changers be licensed to exchange the many sorts of currency in circulation throughout Palestine and...

..., accredited money-changers erected their booths in the principal cities of Palestine for the purpose of providing the Jewish people with proper money to meet the temple dues after they had reached Jerusalem. After this ten-day period these money-changers moved on to Jerusalem and proceeded to set up their exchange tables in the courts of the temple. They were permitted to charge the equivalent of from three...

... to four cents commission for the exchange of a coin valued at about ten cents, and in case a coin of larger value was offered for exchange, they were allowed to collect double. Likewise did these temple bankers profit from the exchange of all money intended for the purchase of sacrificial animals and for the payment of vows and the making of offerings. [U173_1_3] (1889.2) 173:1.4 These temple money...

...-changers not only conducted a regular banking business for profit in the exchange of more than twenty sorts of money which the visiting pilgrims would periodically bring to Jerusalem, but they also engaged in all other kinds of transactions pertaining to the banking business. Both the temple treasury and the temple rulers profited tremendously from these commercial activities. It was not uncommon for the...

... temple treasury to hold upwards of ten million dollars while the common people languished in poverty and continued to pay these unjust levies. (1889.3) 173:1.5 In the midst of this noisy aggregation of money-changers, merchandisers, and cattle sellers, Jesus, on this Monday morning, attempted to teach the gospel of the heavenly kingdom. He was not alone in resenting this profanation of the temple; the...

... the money table of a near-by exchanger a violent and heated argument had arisen over the alleged overcharging of a Jew from Alexandria, while at the same moment the air was rent by the bellowing of a drove of some one hundred bullocks which was being driven from one section of the animal pens to another. As Jesus paused, silently but thoughtfully contemplating this scene of commerce and confusion...

... stall and to drive out the imprisoned animals. By this time the assembled pilgrims were electrified, and with uproarious shouting they moved toward the bazaars and began to overturn the tables of the money-changers. In less than five minutes all commerce had been swept from the temple. By the time the near-by Roman guards had appeared on the scene, all was quiet, and the crowds had become orderly...

...? Who gave you this authority?” (1891.4) 173:2.3 It was altogether proper that the temple rulers and the officers of the Jewish Sanhedrin should ask this question of anyone who presumed to teach and perform in the extraordinary manner which had been characteristic of Jesus, especially as concerned his recent conduct in clearing the temple of all commerce. These traders and money-changers all operated...