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And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,
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Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
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For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,
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And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.
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And he went into the Temple and put out those who were trading there,
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Saying to them, It has been said, My house is to be a house of prayer, but you have made it a hole of thieves.
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And every day he was teaching in the Temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people were attempting to put him to death;
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But they were not able to do anything, because the people all kept near him, being greatly interested in his words.