MIC Market Invading Religion

For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold--sin which your own hands have made for you.

Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"

"Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?"

But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships."

how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.