"Présence à Dieu, présence au monde : peut-on réapprendre à lire la péricope des marchands du temple ?"

We first show how Jesus is inevitably led to a clash with the Temple authorities, when he makes an analogy between his body and the fate of the Temple, even when in fact the goal is to put in perspective the sanctuary. We look afterwards at the reasons why tradition has understood this call as one aiming at a rediscovery of the purity of an original inspiration giving God’s kingdom all its place. We look after this at the cosmic significance of the Temple motive, and show how this recasts the question in a larger framework than the Jewish ritualistic one. Then we suggest that the call of Jesus to order can be read as a primitive reinsertion of each activity in its own place, without abandoning the secular field to its fate, rather saving it in its rightful one.