38. saying, “Blessed is the king, the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39. And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
40. And he answered and said, “I tell you that if these keep silent, the stones will cry out!”
41. And when he approached and saw the city, he wept over it,
42. saying, “If you had known on this day—even you—the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
43. For days will come upon you and your enemies will put up an embankment against you, and will surround you and press you hard from all directions.
44. And they will raze you to the ground, you and your children within you, and will not leave a stone upon a stone within you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
45. And he entered into the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling,
46. saying to them, “It is written, ‘And my house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a cave of robbers!”
47. And he was teaching every day in the temple courts, and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him.
48. And they did not find anything they could do, because all the people were paying close attention to what they were hearing from him.