Luke 19:45-46

[45] And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and [46] Saying unto them, It is written, house of prayer: but have made it a den of thieves.

What is the context of Luke 19:45-46?

Jesus Clears the Temple (Luke 19:45-48 true)
Jesus Cleanses the Temple (Luke 19:45-48 true)
The Cleansing of the Temple (Luke 19:45-48 true)
Cleansing the Temple Complex (Luke 19:45-48 true)
Confrontation in the Temple over Money (Luke 19:45-48 true)
Traders Driven from the Temple (Luke 19:45-48 true)
Jesus at the Temple .( AK .) (Luke 19:45-48 true)

What does Luke 19:45-46 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Judgment began when Jesus threw the merchants out of the temple courtyard. Jesus did this twice, once at the beginning of His ministry ( John 2:13-22) and here at the end. Luke stressed the temple as a place of prayer. Jesus purified it quoting from Isaiah 56:7 and Jeremiah 7:11. Luke"s interest in this incident, which he related briefly, was primarily as the introduction to Jesus" teaching that followed. It also explains the religious leaders" great antagonism toward Jesus ( Luke 19:47).

Perhaps Luke omitted Jesus calling the temple a house of prayer for the Gentiles because he thought this might confuse his Gentile readers. The temple had not become a house of prayer for the Gentiles. Was Jesus therefore wrong? The explanation that Luke did not want to digress to explain was that it will become such in the millennial kingdom.

Some interpreters have identified this incident as the fulfillment of Malachi 3:1, but none of the evangelists connected the event with that prophecy. Malachi 3:1 is a prediction of Jesus" coming to the Tribulation temple at His second coming (cf. Zechariah 14:21).