Money changers in the Temple

[ratio1]

Were the money changers in the Temple or the Temple Mount (ie court of Gentiles)?

 

[Vico]

Were the money changers in the Temple or the Temple Mount (ie court of Gentiles)?

There were four courts in the Temple.

 

[Hereiam]

They were outside the walls of the temple.

 

[DaveBj]

I was chatting with our priest yesterday about today’s readings, and he mentioned that they had been brought into the Court of the Gentiles, thus disturbing the God-fearing Gentiles who were trying to pray.

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[BartholomewB]

The colonnades running along all four walls of the Temple enclosure added up to around three-quarters of a mile in length. There was ample room to accommodate all the money-changers and other merchants.

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[TheOldColonel]

They had a kiosk just outside the entrance.

 

[NotThatHarvey]

The moneychangers would have been in what Josephus describes as the Royal Cloisters- on the left in the picture. It was a hundred feet or so in width and covered which made for an area where the merchants could ply their trade- changing money and selling sacrificial beasts.

Jesus held court, by the way, in Solomon’s Portico, which was in the east cloister opposite the main Temple entrance- in the picture it is in the foreground.

 

[TheOldColonel]

I’m almost certain I gave those guys a twenty and only got change for a ten.

 

[patrick457]

As mentioned, they were probably in the Royal Portico (aka Royal Stoa). In addition to those vendors inside the Temple, there were also stores just outside and below the Mount.

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