42Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
43For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,
44And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.
45And he went into the Temple and put out those who were trading there,
46Saying to them, It has been said, My house is to be a house of prayer, but you have made it a hole of thieves.
47And every day he was teaching in the Temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people were attempting to put him to death;
48But they were not able to do anything, because the people all kept near him, being greatly interested in his words.