Luke 19:39-48 ▼

39 Some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples [for shouting these Messianic praises].”

40 Jesus replied, “I tell you, if these [people] keep silent, the stones will cry out [in praise]!”

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

42 saying, “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.

43 For 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,

44 and 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].”

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

46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you have made it a ROBBERS’ DEN.”

47 He 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,

48 and 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.