Holy Week; Part III "Don't you hear what they're saying?"

Tehillim 8:3 (Psalms 8:2) From the mouths of Babes and infants at the breast you established strength because of your foes, in order that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

Blind and lame people came up to him in the Temple, and he healed them. But when the cohanim and Torah-teachers saw the wonderful things he was doing, and the children crying out in the temple, "Please deliver us!" to the Son of David, they were furious. They said to him "Do you hear what they're saying?" 

Yeshua Replined, "Of course! haven't you ever read,

'From the Mouths of children and infants you have prepared praise for yourself'?

With that, he left them and went outside the city to Beit-Anyah, where he spent the night.

Right after Yeshua acts as the purifier of the temple, cleaning it out of anything but the worship, before the stir dies down, people come to him to be healed. Children are around him, still shouting and crying out for deliverance. Yeshua is healing people in the inner court, and the religious leaders are upset.

It seems the most religious people in the area are the most annoyed. The temple was pure, and people were being helped, yet those who "knew G-d best" were frustrated. They were not frustrated by the business chaos that was happening moments before, on the contrary, they seem to approve of it. It's an interesting irony that shows up, when the priests, who were in charge of worship, start mistaking the structure and business of worship for worship itself. 

Here specifically, Yeshua is challenging sins of neglect. They were so busy in the business of worship that they neglect the need to seek justice, correct wrongs and oppression. Faith without works is dead.

Yesha'yahu 1: 11-12 "Why are all those sacrifices offered to me?" asks Adonai. "I'm fed up with the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened animals! I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls, lambs and goats. Yes you come to appear in my presence; but who asked you to do this, to trample through my courtyards?"

16-18 "Wash yourselves clean! get your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing evil, learn to do good! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, defend orphans, plead for the widow.

"Come now," says Adonai, "lets talk this over together. Even if your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow; even if they are red as crimson, they will be like wool"