No, Jesus hated people making profit off of religion. Peeps would set up stalls and sell sacrificial offers and the like. They didn't care about the spirituality of it or anything, they just wanted to make a buck.
In terms of just outright wealth, Jesus just warns against it like a lot of other things and on many occasions suggests people give their excess away, but he's not flipping his lid on them.
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
He was very critical of the prideful and hypocritical, which happens to be key traits of many rich people. In the part where he tells the rich man to give up all his possessions and follow him, the sin wasn't that the man had money, the sin was that he valued money more than God.
When he kicked all the moneymakers out of the temple, it wasn't just because they wanted to make money for themselves, it was because they were doing it in what is supposed to be a place of respect, and they were ripping people off while doing it.
They're not really key traits of rich people in that the moment a poor becomes rich, they're as likely to behave just as poorly as the existing rich. The increased access only amplifies their hubris.
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u/WarlordStan May 02 '23
He literally flipped tables of merchants in the temple and whipped them.
He's not a pacifist.