39. Some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”
40. He answered them, “I tell you, if these should be silent, the stones would immediately cry out.”
41. When He came near, He beheld the city and wept over it,
42. saying, “If you, even you, had known even today what things would bring you peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
43. For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you, and press you in on every side.
44. They will dash you, and your children within you, to the ground. They will not leave one stone upon another within you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
45. Then He entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and bought in it,
46. saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it ‘a den of thieves.’”
47. He taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people tried to kill Him.
48. Yet they could not find a way to do it, for all the people were very attentive to hear Him.