Money-changer
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(Mt 21:12; Mk 11:15; Jn 2:15).
Every Israelite from twenty years and upwards had to pay (Ex 30:13ff) into the sacred treasury half a shekel every year as an offering to Jehovah, and that in the exact Hebrew half-shekel piece. There was a class of men, who frequented the temple courts, who exchanged at a certain premium foreign moneys for these half-shekels to the Jews who came up to Jerusalem from all parts of the world. (See Passover.) When Jesus drove the traffickers out of the temple, these money-changers fared worst. Their tables were overturned and they themselves were expelled.
This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.
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