In any organization or situation you usually get your authority either through your position or through the influence you have in people, sometimes referred to as personal authority. You could start with positional authority and if you do not develop personal authority, you will not go far in that organization or situation. Jesus on the other hand started with personal authority and threatened the positional authority of the Jewish leaders. Mark 11:9-10 Then those who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ Blessed is the kingdom of our father David That comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” In this chapter, Jesus made multi day visits (starting with His triumphal entry) to Jerusalem and the temple and spoke with authority about the conduct of people in the temple. Jesus intended for the temple to be an international house of prayer, a house of prayer for all nations....