The Definition of the word Money-changer

Money-changer

(Matt. 21:12; Mark 11:15; John 2:15). Every Israelite from twenty years and upwards had to pay (Ex. 30:13-15) into the sacred treasury half a shekel every year as an offering to "Jehovah, and that in the exact Hebrew half-shekel piece. There" "was a class of men, who frequented the temple courts, who" exchanged at a certain premium foreign moneys for these half-shekels to the Jews who came up to Jerusalem from all parts of the world. (See [416]PASSOVER.) When our Lord drove the "traffickers out of the temple, these money-changers fared worst." Their tables were overturned and they themselves were expelled.