The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
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41 When Yeshua had come closer and could see the city, he wept over it,
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As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it
42 saying, "If you only knew today what is needed for shalom! But for now it is hidden from your sight.
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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 are coming upon you when your enemies will set up a barricade around you, encircle you, 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 dash you to the ground, you and your children within your walls, leaving not one stone standing on another -- and all because you did not recognize your opportunity when God offered it!"
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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 Then Yeshua entered the Temple grounds and began driving out those doing business there,
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When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling.
46 saying to them, "The Tanakh says, `My House is to be a house of prayer,'a but you have made it into a den of robbers!"
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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 Every day he taught at the Temple. The head cohanim, the Torah-teachers and the leaders of the people tried to find a way of putting an end to 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 but they couldn't find any way of doing it, because all the people were hanging onto his every word.
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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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