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44 and dash you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you; because you did not know the time of your visitation.”[a]

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

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

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Footnotes

  1. 19.41-44 These moving words spoken over the city are full of scriptural allusions. Moreover, the details given could apply as well to the siege of 587 b.c as to that of a.d. 70. It is not safe, therefore, to argue from this passage that the fall of the city had already taken place when Luke wrote his Gospel.

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