Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. – John 2:15
After the uproar and dispersal,
after the zeal and shouts,
after the sheep and doves
and cattle and bankers
had been driven out:
You know what you’ll see
in the Temple?
The same thing we see
in our Temples.
Tables replaced.
Stalls re-erected.
Coins re-stacked.
Business resuming
in God’s House.
A poem/prayer based on John 2:13-22, the Revised Common Lectionary Gospel Reading for Year B, Third Sunday in Lent.
The image is The Expulsion of the Merchants from the Temple (ca. 1568) by Jacopo Bassano, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53240101. Jesus is barely visible in the background of the painting.
ordainedgeek 
O my, yes. But somehow … every time I leave a vigil, protest, march, I know that things are put back together but if one person’s mind is changed (“Remember Dad when I was little and we were at the Temple for Passover and the man turned over the tables and told us to pray instead of buying and selling and cheating people ….”)
You’re absolutely right. I do wish – pray – that evil had to persuade people one at a time instead of being baked into our conception of “normal.”