William Robertson Nicoll, "it was to be expected that the act would be challenged". For Henry Alford, it is the Jehovah who needs them, for the service of God; for Nicoll, it is Jesus who is the Lord or master who needs them, using the term Ὁ κύριος, ho kurios, in the same manner as where it refers to Jesus in : "Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!" Verse 4 This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet: Some versions read "All this took place ...", but the word ὅλον (holon, "all") does not appear in a number of early texts. Verse 11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. Cleansing of the Temple (21:12–17) Verse 12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, "Money changers": are certain people who sat in the temple at certain times, to receive the "half shekel", and sometimes change the money for it to themselves. It was a custom for every Israelite, once a year, to pay half a shekel towards the temple charge and service, based on the orders given by God to Moses in the wilderness during the numbering of the Israelites, to take half a shekel out of everyone twenty years of age and older, rich or poor (), though this does not seem to be designed as a perpetual rule. However, it became a fixed rule, and was annually paid. Every year a public notice was given in all the cities in Israel, that the time of paying the half shekel was nearing, so the people will be ready with their money, for everyone was obliged to pay it, as stated, Notice being thus given, "on the fifteenth day (of the same month), "tables" were placed in the province, or city (which Bartenora interprets [as] Jerusalem; but Maimonides says, the word used is the name of all the cities in the land of Israel, excepting Jerusalem), and on the twenty fifth they sit "in the sanctuary". The same is related by Maimonides. This gives a plain account of these money changers, their tables, and their sitting in the temple, and on what account. These exchangers had a profit, called "Kolbon", in every