Luke 19:41-48

41As He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it [and the spiritual ignorance of its people],

42saying, “If [only] you had known on this day [of salvation], even you, the things which make for peace [and on which peace depends]! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

43For a time [of siege] is coming when your enemies will put up a barricade [with pointed stakes] against you, and surround you [with armies] and hem you in on every side,

44and they will level you to the ground, you [Jerusalem] and your children within you. They will not leave in you one stone on another, all because you did not [come progressively to] recognize [from observation and personal experience] the time of your visitation [when God was gracious toward you and offered you salvation].”

45Jesus went into the temple [enclosure] and began driving out those who were selling,

46saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a robbers’ den.”

47He was teaching day after day in the temple [porches and courts]; but the chief priests and scribes and the leading men among the people were seeking [a way] to put Him to death,

48and they could not find anything that they could do, for all the people [stayed close to Him and] were hanging on to every word He said.