This duck walked into a restaurant one day and asked the man if he had any duck food. The waiter looked down at the duck and told him to get out of there, he didn't have any duck food and this restaurant was no place for ducks anyway. The next day the duck came back and asked again if he had any duck food. I don't carry duck food and this is no place for ducks. The third day the duck came back.
Sin is as persistent as ducks.
It keeps coming back. Even more important for us are three lessons that emerge from this man of zeal for the Temple of the Lord. The first lesson from this story about the zeal of Jesus Christ for worship tells us that worship is far more important than most of us realize. His energy, fire, and authority had to be so clear and evident that all the people who were gaining big bucks for this unjust system of temple business did not oppose him. In all of the gospel stories, nothing brings out such rage from Jesus as the cleansing of the temple.