My study and observation of Mark 11. In this chapter a great crowd gathers as Jesus enters Jerusalem. “And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Mark 11:9”. Jesus overturns the tables of money changers and says, “…Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves. Mark 11:17”. The temple area was filled with people seeking to greatly profit from selling doves who worked together with the priests and robbed the people by forcing them to purchase approved sacrificial animals at inflated prices. The temple is God’s house so Jesus had the right to purge them of the crooked sellers.