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Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you from every side.
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They will crush you into the ground, and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you did not recognize it when God visited you. ”
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Then Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the people selling animals for sacrifices.
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He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.”
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After that, he taught daily in the Temple, but the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the other leaders of the people began planning how to kill him.
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But they could think of nothing, because all the people hung on every word he said.