5. 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; and would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. And He taught, saying unto them, 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. And the Scribes and chief Priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy Him: for they feared Him, because all the people was astonished at His doctrine. (Mark, 11: 15-18; and Matthew, 21:12 & 13).
6. Jesus expelled the merchants from the temple. With this act He condemned the trading of sacred things in any form whatsoever, God does not sell His blessings, neither His pardon, nor the right of entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore Man has no right to stipulate a price for such things.
- Allan Kardec.
Excerpted from Chapter XXVI - Give for free what has been received gratuitously - of "The Gospel according to Spiritism" - Allan Kardec.
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