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Luke 19:42 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. "
Luke 19:42
Verse in Context
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40 He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”
41 When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
42 saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
43 For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”
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Luke 19:1
"He entered and was passing through Jericho."
Luke 19:2
"There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich."
Luke 19:3
"He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short."
Luke 19:4
"He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way."
Luke 19:5
"When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”"
Luke 19:6
"He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully."
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