Luke 19:41-44

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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

⁴¹And when he drew near and saw the city he wept over it, ⁴²saying, “Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hid from your eyes. ⁴³For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will cast up a bank about you and surround you, and hem you in on every side, ⁴⁴and dash you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you; because you did not know the time of your visitation.”^[a]

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19.41-44 These moving words spoken over the city are full of scriptural allusions. Moreover, the details given could apply as well to the siege of 587 b.c as to that of a.d. 70. It is not safe, therefore, to argue from this passage that the fall of the city had already taken place when Luke wrote his Gospel.

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