12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’
He also whipped them with a lash made out of cords, if I remember correctly. I'm a lifelong atheist, so I have probably read the Bible more than most Christians.