In the New Testament, Jesus walks into a temple and sees it taken over by people looking to make a profit, how common were places like this during this time?

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SecureThruObscure

You are unintentionally conflating modern day Temples (as found in reform Judaism and a number of other religions) with "The Temple" of pre Rabbinic Judaism, I think.

Do you remember the Destruction of the Second Temple? This was "The Temple" being referred to. Not an abstract series of places of worship like the Christian Church or specific places of meeting like Jewish Synagogues.

Judaism at the time was different, and the practices involved a pilgrimage to The Temple and a sacrifice using the system maintained there.

tl;dr: There was only 1 temple at the time.

Are you asking how often it happened there or how often it occurred at other, similar places?