Beginning today and continuing with these five remaining midweek Lenten services, we explore what took place on the three significant days between Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday.

Our text for today takes place on Monday of Holy Week. On the previous day, Palm Sunday, Jesus was welcomed to Jerusalem with great enthusiasm and shouts of, “"Hosanna!" "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!" (Mark 11:9). Two verses later, Palm Sunday ends on a bit of an ominous note as Mark records: “[Jesus] entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when He had looked around at everything, as it was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve” (Mk 11:11).

The next day, Monday of Holy Week, Jesus would do a lot more than merely look around the temple grounds. Jesus was disgusted with what He saw, and He did something about it.