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And he answered and said, I tell you that, if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.
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And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it,
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saying, If thou hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
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For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
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and shall dash thee to 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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And he entered into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold,
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saying unto them, It is written, And my house shall be a house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of robbers.
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And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him:
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and they could not find what they might do; for the people all hung upon him, listening.