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!”
47. Every day Jesus taught in the Temple. The chief priests, the teachers of the Law, and the leaders of the people wanted to kill him,
48. but they could not find a way to do it, because all the people kept listening to him, not wanting to miss a single word.