On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, 16 and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 17 And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’ ? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’ ”
18 The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.
19 When evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.
18 The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.
19 When evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.
Note the strange coincidence: Jesus is identifying as ''robbers'' basically the same people ''who were buying and selling there'', precisely, ''those selling doves''. If the ''doves'' are symbols of the Holy Spirit (of Christ?) then these people are portrayed as Simon Magus, sellers of spiritual goods.
But according to Marcion, the Christ came to earth as a robber insofar he bought the souls of men from the demiurge, without the latter knowing the real identity of him. So also the marcionite Christ had any credential to be mocked as a ''buyer and seller'' of souls. And he could be cursed by the Judaizers as a factor of corruption of the Judaism (read: Christianity of the Judaizers).
So it is possible an anti-gnostic reading of Mark 11:15-19 15 insofar the Jesus (of the Judaizer ''Mark'') casts out the preachers of the marcionite/gnostic Christ.