'Enclosure' in the Bible
And Jesus entered the temple [grounds] and drove out [with force] all who were buying and selling [birds and animals for sacrifice] in the temple area, and He turned over the tables of the moneychangers [who made a profit exchanging foreign money for temple coinage] and the chairs of those who were selling doves [for sacrifice].
When He entered the temple area, the chief priests and elders of the people came to Him as He was teaching and said, “By what [kind of] authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority [to exercise this power]?”
Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple [enclosure]; and after looking around at everything, He left for Bethany with the twelve [disciples], because it was already late [in the day].
and He would not permit anyone to carry merchandise or household wares through the temple [grounds, using the temple area irreverently as a shortcut].
As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked Him privately,
Prompted by the Spirit, he came into the temple [enclosure]; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for Him the custom required by the Law,
and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She did not leave the [area of the] temple, but was serving and worshiping night and day with fastings and prayers.
“Two men went up into the temple [enclosure] to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Jesus went into the temple [enclosure] and began driving out those who were selling,
Day after day when I was with you in the temple, you did not lay hands on Me; but this hour and the power and authority of darkness are yours.”
And in the temple [enclosure] He found the people who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at their tables.
He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;
So they picked up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus concealed Himself and left the temple.
“Then it happened when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple [enclosure], that I fell into a trance (vision);
Because of this some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.
for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down,