During Passover, Samaritan men walk to the top of Mount Gerizim—the site, they believe, of God’s true temple, rather than Jerusalem. The Samaritans of Jesus’ day were despised as infidels ...

Jesus enters with with the flock of pilgrims going into Jerusalem the ... place on the Great Holy Day festivals. The priests, then, really are in charge of the Temple itself the Temple Proper.

As soon as Jesus and his disciples arrive in Jerusalem they go to the temple. It was customary for animals to be sacrificed. However, the animals that were to be offered as sacrifices had to be ...