Luke 19:41 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.”
We have seen Jesus making His way towards Jerusalem: refuting His opponents, healing the sick, telling His followers what it really means to be His disciple. He is now on the last leg of the journey. The chapter begins with Him entering Jericho, where announces that both He and salvation will be staying at the house of Zacchaeus, a sinful tax-collector. He then tells the parable of the ten minas, about a landowner/king who entrusts his estate to some stewards, while he goes away on business. There are also many in His kingdom who do not want Him to be King. When He returns, He rewards those who have handled their trust well, while punishing those who have remained rebellious against Him. Next is what we refer to as The Triumphal Entry, where the people bow down and sing His praises as the long- awaited deliverer. Again, there are those who refuse to accept Him as King. It is that fact that moves Him to make the statement above, as He mourns their rejections. The final paragraph of the chapter is His dramatic cleansing of the temple, driving out the money-mad merchants and rebuking the poor management for allowing the place to go downhill so far. Everywhere Jesus went, He made quite an entrance.
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