CCC 584 Jesus went up to the Temple as the privileged place of encounter with God. For him, the Temple was the dwelling of his Father, a house of prayer, and he was angered that its outer court had become a place of commerce.¹ He drove merchants out of it because of jealous love for his Father: “You shall not make my Father’s house a house of trade. His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’”² After his Resurrection his apostles retained their reverence for the Temple.³

1 Cf. Mt 21:13.
2 Jn 2:16-17; cf. Ps 69:10.
3 Cf. Acts 2:46; 3:1; 5:20, 21; etc.