My House Is a House of Prayer

Sought, Faithful, and Entering the City · Luke 19

Story guide: Jesus overturns a merchant table in the temple court as sellers withdraw and worshipers watch. Jesus weeps over Jerusalem because it did not recognize the way of peace.

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41And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it,

42saying, “If you had known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace—but now they have been hidden from your eyes.”

43For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and hem you in on every side,

44and they will level you to the ground, and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another within you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.

45And entering the temple, he began to drive out those who were selling,

46saying to them, “It is written, ‘And my house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

47And he was teaching day by day in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes, and the leading men of the people, were seeking to destroy him,

48And they could not find what they might do, because all the people were hanging on his words as they listened.

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