Moneychangers
chan'-jers (kollubistes, from kollubos, "a small coin," so
"a money-changer," or "banker" (Mt 21:12; Mk 11:15;
"changers" in Jn 2:15; compare 2:14, where kermatistes, "a
dealer in small bits," or "change," is also rendered
"changers"); compare trapezites, "one who sits at a table,"
"a money-changer," "a banker" or "broker"; one who both
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General scriptures concerning
Mt 21:12; Mr 11:15; Joh 2:15...
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Mt 21:12; Mr 11:15; Joh 2:15 According to Ex 30:13-15 every
Israelite who had reached or passed the age of twenty must pay
into the sacred treasury, whenever the nation was numbered, a
half-shekel as an offering to Jehovah. The money-changers whom
Christ, for their impiety, avarice and fraudulent dealing,
expelled from the temple were the deal...
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(Matt. 21:12; Mark 11:15; John 2:15). Every Israelite from
twenty years and upwards had to pay (Ex. 30:13-15)
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 mon...
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Kollubistes and kermatistes, both denoting dealers in small
coin (kollubos and kerma the profit money, 1 1/2d.). They set
up tables in the court of the Gentiles, to supply at a profit
foreign Jews with the Jewish half shekels (1 shillings, 3
pence) required for the yearly payment into the temple
treasury, in exchange for foreign coin. The "exc...
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And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them
that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables
of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,...
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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;...
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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;...
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Money-changers. Although the modern section of Jerusalem has had its Western type of banks with capital running into the millions of dollars, the old section of the city has always had its money-changers. These men change people's money from one type of currency to another, and also provide change within the same currency. The money-changer sits be...
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