43. Jerusalem, the time will come when your enemies will build walls around you to attack you. Armies will surround you and close in on you from every side.
44. They will level you to the ground and kill your people. Not one stone in your buildings will be left on top of another. This will happen because you did not see that God had come to save you.
45. When Jesus entered the temple, he started chasing out the people who were selling things.
46. He told them, “The Scriptures say, ‘My house should be a place of worship.’ But you have made it a place where robbers hide!”
47. Each day, Jesus kept on teaching in the temple. So the chief priests, the teachers of the Law of Moses, and some other important people tried to have him killed.
48. But they could not find a way to do it, because everyone else was eager to listen to him.