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.