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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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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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Jesus went into the Temple and began to throw out the people who were selling things there.
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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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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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But they did not know how they could do it, because all the people were listening closely to him.