If we are to believe the idiom dictionary, then turning the tables as we hear it in regular use means being given the hand you dealt to your neighbour. Jesus on the other hand turns over the tables in the temple, not reversing the fortunes of those involved, but revealing the hand of the temple authorities to be as loaded dice. What do we make of these houses of prayer? Do we need to overturn the tables ourselves?
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