GOD'S WORD Translation GW
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43 The time will come when enemy armies will build a wall to surround you and close you in on 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 level you to the ground and kill your people. One stone will not be left on top of another, because you didn't recognize the time when God came to help 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 Jesus went into the temple courtyard and began to throw out those who were selling things there.
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When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling.
46 He said to them, "Scripture says, 'My house will be a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a gathering place 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 Jesus taught in the temple courtyard every day. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people looked for a way 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 were eager to hear him.
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Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.
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