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43 The time is coming when your enemies will build a wall around you and will hold you in on all sides.
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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 destroy you and all your people, and not one stone will be left on another. All this will happen 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 Jesus went into the Temple and began to throw out the people 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, "It is written in the Scriptures, 'My Temple will be a house for prayer.' But you have changed it into a 'hideout for robbers'!"
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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 every day. The leading priests, the experts on the law, and some of the leaders of the people wanted to kill Jesus.
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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 did not know how they could do it, because all the people were listening closely to 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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