44. They will demolish you – you and your children within your walls – and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
45. Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there,
46. saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!”
47. Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,
48. but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on his words.