# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S38
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38 Proceedings of the nineteenth convention

[Matthew] includes in his register of the forefathers of Joseph and Jesus also the names of a Tamar, a Rahab and the wife of Uriah, while he is silent about a Sarah and a Rebekah, whom he might also have named, this shows us: Jesus is not ashamed of the sinners, men and women, who were his grandfathers and grandmothers, to be called their son according to the flesh. A Rahab and a Ruth are also named, heathen women by origin, for God is not only the God of the Jews but certainly also of the heathen, and Jesus truly receives sinners, whoever and however they may have been before.

With this let it be enough on this point. Theologians who desire to know more about it are referred to Calov's "Biblia Illustrata", where in the third volume, on 20 pages, every even incidental point of these genealogies is brought up and skillfully treated.

The Cleansing of the Temple.

(Matt. 21:12-16. Mark 11:15-17. Luke 19:45 f., compare John 2:14-22.)

Each of the four evangelists reports how Jesus cleansed the temple. But whereas John places this event in Jesus' first stay in Jerusalem after his baptism and the beginning of his teaching office, Matthew, Mark and Luke unanimously place the cleansing of the temple wholly at the end, in Jesus' last stay in Jerusalem, namely on the Monday after Palm Sunday. Since now it is to be read in all four Gospels that this action aroused offense and opposition among the chief men of the Jewish community, it is said: Such an event could not have taken place more than once; for Jesus would surely have been prevented by force from carrying out the cleansing of the temple a second time; so either there is in John's determination of the time a lapse of memory, which stands alone here against three other witnesses, or Matthew, Mark and Luke are in error.

Against this quite groundless inference Schleiermacher ("Einl. in d. N. T." [Introduction to the New Testament], p. 279) already made the following correct objection: "John reports, at Jesus' first stay in Jerusalem, such a cleansing of the temple as the other evangelists have in connection with the last. Many have thought that this is a lapse of memory on John's part, which to me, however, is quite improbable, since he has too clear an overview of the main moments of the historical course. One need only try to picture the matter as it really was, in order to assume that Jesus, as often as he was in Jerusalem, had to do something similar each time. Near the temple there had necessarily to be moneychangers because of the temple coinage, likewise dealers in sacrificial animals. They were to