If he tried his table tipping in the Vatican he'd get skewered by a Swiss Guard.
Well, supposedly he did manage it in a temple courtyard the size of a few football fields put together, and which had a battalion of guards to prevent exactly that kind of thing. So I guess his kung-fu was strong.
On the other hand, the curious thing is that after supposedly attacking people with a scourge in John 3:15, "the Jews" (it's always "the Jews" with John, but Matt 21:15-16 makes some priest talk to him there; N.B., Mark 11:18 doesn't agree with Matt) just talk to him and let him go on his merry way.
Furthermore, here's an interesting bit that people seem to gloss over, especially those who come up with the kind of rationalization where a HJ attacks the temple and is arrested on the same evening for it. And I don't mean just the fact that he wouldn't even make bail, much less get to walk away and be arrested later, if he pulled that stunt.
But here's what Matt 26:55-56 has Jesus say at his arrest. My emphasis:
55. In that hour Jesus said to the crowd, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me? Every day I sat in the temple courts teaching, and you did not arrest me.
56. But this has all taken place that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.”
Note that he doesn't say, "this afternoon I went back to the temple and sat teaching" or "nor yesterday [...]". He says, "
every day". That implies at least a few days.
We're also told in Matt 21:12 (or at least it's implied) that Jesus went to the temple and cleared it first thing upon reaching Jerusalem. So whatever days he might have sat in the temple teaching, must have been after that.
And nobody thought to arrest him after the attack? For DAYS? He just goes back to the temple where everyone knows him, and nobody notices that? Even now he's only getting arrested because he has a prophecy to fulfil?
I dunno, man... it's... I dunno... as if there was no attack on the people in the temple courtyard at all.
