41 And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, 42 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 44 and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Many pilgrims who came to Jerusalem would cry with joy when they saw the city and the temple, but Jesus had tears of sorrow, because having been their often before, He had received repeated rejection. He had come and presented Himself as Messiah, Savior, Deliverer, but they turned a blind eye and deaf ear. The Visitor had come and been turned away. The next visitor to come would be judgment.
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