43 For days will come upon you and your enemies will put up an embankment[a] against you, and will surround you and press you hard from all directions. 44 And they will raze you to the ground, you and your children within you, and will not leave a stone upon a stone within you, because[b] you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

The Cleansing of the Temple

45 And he entered into the temple courts[c] and[d] began to drive out those who were selling,

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 19:43 Or “a palisade” (the term can refer to either a wooden or an earthen barricade)
  2. Luke 19:44 Literally “in return for which”
  3. Luke 19:45 Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
  4. Luke 19:45 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“entered”) has been translated as a finite verb