Luke tells us very briefly of the scene where Jesus drives the traders from the courts of the Temple. Those coming to the Temple needed to buy animals for the sacrifices and they needed to change their Roman coins into acceptable Jewish currency (shekels) to make their contributions to the Temple. Jesus had no problem about that. What he objected to was that this business was being carried on inside God's house when it could just as well have been done outside. Jesus (and probably others as well) felt that such business was not appropriate in a place dedicated to the worship of God. Not surprisingly, the chief priests and the scribes - especially those who might have been involved in a lucrative business - were plotting how to get rid of Jesus who was accusing them of hypocrisy, greed and corruption. But it was not going to be easy since the ordinary people, as Luke tells us, "were hanging on his every word". Jesus is an example of the true prophet. He speaks as a messenger of God and is indeed God's own Son. He stands as a counter-witness to all that is against truth, love and justice and as such inevitably incurs the anger and hostility of those who have power, power based on falsehood, on self-interest, corruption and injustice. Our Church, in its communities and through individuals, is called on to continue that mission of counter-witness. It will win us the support and admiration of some but also the hostility, the anger and even the violence of others. Our only concern must be always to speak the truth in love.