The Triumphal Entry is a very well know passage with crowds enthusiastic about the arrival of Jesus. They were shouting: "Hosanna to the Son of David!" - "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" - "Hosanna in the highest!" In fact when questioned who this was, they answered: "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee."The crowds were overjoyed to be present at this event.
(However crowds would shout "Crucify Him" just a short time later.)
Jesus "upsets the apple cart" (by overturning the tables of merchants) and makes it clear that the Temple is His Father's house for worship, and not a flea market. Perhaps the chief priests and the teachers of the law were indignant not only because Jesus was healing the blind and the lame, but because shooing the merchants out of the Temple got into their pocket.
The parable of the two sons, and the parable of the tenants expose what is in hearts of the chief priests and the Pharisees.
In a few words:
Insure the Lord's House is truly a place of worship.
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