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saying, "If you had known in thisday, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.
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"For the days will come upon you when your enemies will 1throw up a barricade against you, and 2surround you and hem you in on everyside,
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and they will level you to the ground and your childrenwithin you, and 3they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because* you did not recognize4the time of your visitation."
Traders Driven from the Temple
455Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling,
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saying to them, "It is written, '6AND MY HOUSE SHALL BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' 7but you have made it a ROBBERS'DEN."
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And 8He was teachingdaily* in the temple; but the chiefpriests and the scribes and the leadingmen among the people9were trying to destroy Him,
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and they could not findanything that they might do, for all the people were hanging on to every word He said.