(2:15), and no security guards would be searching (and perhaps informing on) the vast multitude of pilgrims in any case. That Jesus must address the sellers, who are still present in 2:16, suggests that he has not struck them with the whip.274 A day after Jesus overturned tables and created a disturbance in the temple, it is likely that the previous activities had resumed. Without a significant enough band of followers to overpower the temple guard and Roman