“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.”

Question:

I would like to know the metaphysical understanding of Jesus getting angry. I am in the process of embracing all my emotions. I understand how anger can sometimes be used for good, but I’m just not sure how that works.

Comment:

It would appear that Jesus was comfortable expressing his anger—not only against the money changers as recorded here, and in the synoptic gospels as well, but also against the fruitless fig tree and sometimes against his own disciples when they are unusually dense or clueless. I don’t think the implication is that anger is a good choice; it rather assures us that even Jesus was not entirely immune to the emotions we encounter in this human experience. Anger is part of the package. We will inevitably feel it, and we may well act on it. But it’s an inefficient waste of our energy. The efficient choice is to release the anger, return to the love that is God and continue forward on our spiritual path. It’s not that anger is good, but that the “good” that is God can express even through anger. 


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