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Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,
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saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
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For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,
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and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation."
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Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,
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saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of thieves.' "
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And He was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people sought to destroy Him,
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and were unable to do anything; for all the people were very attentive to hear Him.