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40 And he answered and said to them, I tell you, that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
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“I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
41 And when he had come near, he beheld 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 thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things [which belong] to thy peace! but now they are hid from thy 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 shall come upon thee, that thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and encompass thee, and keep thee 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 shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee: and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another: because thou knewest not the time of thy 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 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold in it, and them that bought,
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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, My house is the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of 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 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests, and the scribes, and the chief of the people sought 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 could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive 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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