Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
43 The time will come when your enemies will surround you with barricades, blockade you, and close in on you from every side.
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The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.
44 They will completely destroy you and the people within your walls; not a single stone will they leave in its place, because you did not recognize the time when God came to save you!"
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They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”
45 Then Jesus went into the Temple and began to drive out the merchants,
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When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling.
46 saying to them, "It is written in the Scriptures that God said, "My Temple will be a house of prayer.' But you have turned it into a hideout for thieves!"
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“It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be a house of prayer’; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
47 Every day Jesus taught in the Temple. The chief priests, the teachers of the Law, and the leaders of the people wanted to kill him,
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Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him.
48 but they could not find a way to do it, because all the people kept listening to him, not wanting to miss a single word.
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Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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