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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>when reading today’s Gospel passage, we shouldn’t be surprised that
Jesus, at the climax of his life, came into the Temple and made a
ruckus. </b></span>He was not just being a rabble-rouser. <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>He was rectifying the
Temple so as to rectify the people Israel.</b></span></span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>When
pressed for a sign, he said that he would tear the Temple down and
rebuild it in three days.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>He was talking, as John tells us, of the
temple of his body. He was saying <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">that this old Temple, which had served
its purpose relatively well</span>, would now give way to a new and definitive
Temple. His own body, his own person, would be the place where divinity
and humanity meet, and hence the place of right praise.</b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br></div>
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