The Jewish law does not include immersion. The law requires cleansing before coming to the Temple mount, and Jerusalem had around 100 baths near the Temple mount. That is not the baptism of repentance. The washing of Israel, in "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean", comes after Israel/Ephraim is gathered out of the nations, at which time Israel will also receive a "new heart" and a "new spirit" (Ezekiel 36:24-28) and settled on the land given to Jacob. That hasn't happened.
The Baptist and Jesus were offering a brilliant 'feel good' immersion for nothing, deliberately to snarl up the Temple's intake of funds.
You just don't get it.
And the 'strikings' on that temple shekel was the ultimate disgrace.
The "Pharisees" represented the "scribes" of Jeremiah 8:8, who made the law into a lie, who apparently Yeshua thought were "hypocrites", and referred to them as leaven, in that they affect the whole loaf. Yeshua spent 60 seconds throwing out the money changers from my father's house.
Read your gospels! Jesus and his band went there causing mayhem two days running!
The coin exchange was a huge operation! The average great feast probably had an attendance towards half a million visitors.... not many years after Jesus, Agrippa ordered a sacrifice kidney count to discover such numbers attending.
It wasn't the Pharisees, but the whole corrupt Temple crowd that Jesus and Baptist were 'short-circuiting funds to'.
You just don't get it.
The money changers had nothing to do with buying the baptism of repentance. The baptism of John the Baptist for repentance, was for naught if those baptized did not produce good fruit (Matthew 3). They could be baptized and then thrown into the fire.
You just don't get it!
The Northern Jews got ripped off when they to feasts, every surrounding township was full with temple visitors, not enough room for all and so charges and fees for bed and board were outrageous. A rip off.
Anna's Bazaar was a total rip off! The people's local coinage was no good at the Temple so they had to acquire shekels!
The Priests could condemn any lamb brought to the Temple as imperfect, thus requiring poor folks to have to purchase a Temple one.
And more..........
Do you really read your gospels closely? I bet you don't know what they did on their first day in Jerusalem and Temple that last week.