40. Jesus answered, “I tell you that if they keep quiet, the stones themselves will start shouting.”
41. He came closer to the city, and when he saw it, he wept over it,
42. saying, “If you only knew today what is needed for peace! But now you cannot see it!
43. The time will come when your enemies will surround you with barricades, blockade you, and close in on you from every side.
44. They will completely destroy you and the people within your walls; not a single stone will they leave in its place, because you did not recognize the time when God came to save you!”
45. Then Jesus went into the Temple and began to drive out the merchants,
46. saying to them, “It is written in the Scriptures that God said, ‘My Temple will be a house of prayer.’ But you have turned it into a hideout for thieves!”