Contradiction claim
When did Jesus drive the traders from the temple?
John places the temple cleansing early in the narrative, at a Passover near the beginning of Jesus’ public activity. The Synoptic Gospels place it in the final week, after the entry into Jerusalem.
Chronological discrepancyReviewedSeverity: moderateClassification confidence: moderate
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And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;