Luke 19:39-48 ▼

39 And some of the Pharisees in the multitude said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”

40 And He answered and said, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!”

41 And when He approached, He saw the city and wept over it,

42 saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

43 “For the days shall come upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank before you, and surround you, and hem you in on every side,

44 and will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

45 And He entered the temple and began to cast out those who were selling,

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

47 And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him,

48 and they could not find anything that they might do, for all the people were hanging upon His words.