Danes feel Obama is greater than Jesus

[kandrathe]

He didn't allow any commercial activities, that's right. He wanted respect for his church, not fair prices for customers. The word 'thieves' has nothing to do with stealing here, but is instead a reference to the following passage.

"Don’t be fooled into thinking that you will never suffer because the Temple is here. It’s a lie! Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and burn incense to Baal and all those other new gods of yours, and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant, 'We are safe!'—only to go right back to all those evils again? Don’t you yourselves admit that this Temple, which bears my name, has become a den of thieves? Surely I see all the evil going on there. I, the Lord, have spoken!" (Jeremiah 7:8-11)

I would say also in reference back to Jeremiah's warning prior to the temples destruction 500 years earlier. What was happening in the temple was not godly, or respectful of the purpose for which it was built in Jesus opinion. He objected to their using the various halls of prayer as a market. I would conclude also that the pharisee's got some recompense for the marketing within the temple. The house of prayer comment refers to Isaiah 56:7. The temple was subsequently destroyed by the Romans in 70CE.