Jesus' "Cleansing of the Temple" was conducted neither to object to sacrifice as such, nor merely to stop the collection of the half shekel in the Temple. Jesus' action in the Temple was undertaken to protest Caiaphas' introduction of merchants into the Temple, which Jesus saw as a breach of the proper aims of sacrifice. According to Jesus, Israelites as well as their offerings were pure; they should offer what they have to God, not what they purchase inside the Temple. His principle insisted upon the link between worshiper and offering. Jesus' action in the Temple with his followers brought about his death, because he interfered with the public conduct of worship. The immediate cause for the priests to take action against Jesus was that he set up his meals, which emerged as the Eucharist, as a rival sacrifice to the one in the Temple. In this sense Jesus was a revolutionary rabbi.