Money-changer

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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 {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.