41 And when he drew near and saw the city, he ^uwept over it, 42 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a ^vbarricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 44 and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will ^wnot leave one stone upon another in you, ^xbecause you did not know the time of your visitation.”

45 ^yAnd he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ^z‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ^aden of robbers.”

47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking ^bto destroy him, 48 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were ^changing on his words.