Temple Tantrum!, Jesus Style

In Sunday school I remember learing the story from the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) where Jesus goes into the temple to "drive out the moneylenders", and he "overturned their tables" because he was furious that people were using the "House of God" as a place to make money. From these three Synoptic Gospels I remember getting the idea that Jesus was just making a calm, but forceful point. But how does the less taught non-Synoptic Gospel of John differ?

John 2:12-15
"After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;"


"Christ Driving the Moneychangers from the Temple" by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1626

Wiki: A scourge (from Italian scoriada, from Latin excoriare = "to flay" and corium = "skin") is a whip or lash, especially a multi-thong type used to inflict severe corporal punishment or self-mortification on the back.


So jesus took the time to make a special whip that is intended to be used on humans, not animals, and it's purpose is to inflict as much pain as possible (remember the scene where Jesus took a serious beating in "The Passion of the Christ...that was a scourge). He didn't just slap some money changers in the heat of the moment, he actually made a weapon, then took it to the temple like the verse says. And this is the "prince of peace"?

This doesn't seem like the rational actions that an "all knowing, all powerful, all loving" god would take. Jesus should rethink his tactics before a madman follower, hellbent on world domination uses this passage to his advantage. Shit! To late, Hitler is a fan of Jesus' 1,189 chapter book, especially this passage where Jesus is using violence to run out the moneylenders (Jews).

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."
- Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered April 12, 1922, Published in "My New Order"