Luke 19:41-48

English Standard Version

Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

^41 (A)And when he drew near and saw the city, ^(B)he wept over it, ⁴² saying, ^(C)“Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now ^(D)they are hidden from your eyes. ⁴³ For ^(E)the days will come upon you, when your enemies ^(F)will set up a barricade around you and ^(G)surround you and hem you in on every side ^44 (H)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And ^(I)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know ^(J)the time of your ^(K)visitation.”

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

^45 (L)And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, ⁴⁶ saying to them, “It is written, ^(M)‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but ^(N)you have made it a den of robbers.”

^47 (O)And he was teaching daily in the temple. ^(P)The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, ⁴⁸ but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.