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Explanation
This comic places a biblical event into a modern financial context for humorous effect. A man behind what appears to be a bank or lending window tells a woman he is sorry, but they are having to reassess all their lending practices because "apparently Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers." The caption reads: "33AD was a rough year for widows seeking rent assistance loans."
The joke draws on the New Testament story (Mark 11:15-17, Matthew 21:12-13) in which Jesus drives the money changers out of the Temple in Jerusalem, overturning their tables in a righteous fury against commercial activity in a sacred space. The comic reimagines the practical, bureaucratic fallout of this event: if Jesus physically destroyed the money changers' operations, it would have downstream consequences for ordinary people who relied on those financial services, such as widows trying to get loans. The humor lies in the absurd collision between a dramatic act of religious protest and the mundane reality of institutional lending policies. It is a classic SMBC move of taking a well-known story and exploring its unintended, logistically awkward consequences.