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39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, rebuke Your disciples."
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Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
40 But Jesus answered, "I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!"
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“I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
41 When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,
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As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it
42 saying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.
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and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.
43 "For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem 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 and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation."
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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 entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling,
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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, 'AND MY HOUSE SHALL BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' but you have made it a ROBBERS' DEN."
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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 And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy 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 and they could not find anything that they might do, for all the people were hanging on to every word He said.
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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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