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The Cleansing of the Temple by Cecco Caravaggio I want you to imagine that you are a member of the underclass in a politically oppressed nation. There is widespread feeling that the time is ripe for change. All it needs is the right leader to step forward. People are waiting for their own ‘Aragon’, a ‘Return of the King’ moment which will spell the end of the local ‘Sauron’ and his orcish forces. Now imagine that you wake up one morning and find that the crowd has recognised you  as ‘the one’ and you have been thrust to the front of the long expected popular uprising! What is the first thing you would do? Now jump in a time machine and travel back roughly 2000 years to this morning’s equivalent day in about 30 or 33AD. You are in Jerusalem. The Roman army is the occupying force. The oppressed Jewish people have a religious expectation that God will raise up a king like David and reinstate the kingdom as it was in the glory days. There is a prophecy that when this King comes He will...