Luk 19:43-44 | JFB | STEP | 43. a trench —a rampart; first of wood, and when this was burnt, a built wall, four miles in circuit, built in three days—so determined were they. This "cut off all hope of escape," and consigned the city to unparalleled horrors. (See JOSEPHUS , Wars of the Jews, 6.2; 12.3,4.) All here predicted was with dreadful literally fulfilled. . SECOND CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE AND SUBSEQUENT TEACHING.

Luke 19:43-44

43. a trench—a rampart; first of wood, and when this was burnt, a built wall, four miles in circuit, built in three days—so determined were they. This "cut off all hope of escape," and consigned the city to unparalleled horrors. (See JOSEPHUS, Wars of the Jews, 6.2; 12.3,4.) All here predicted was with dreadful literally fulfilled.

Lu 19:45-48. SECOND CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE AND SUBSEQUENT TEACHING.

41-44. when beheld . . . wept—Compare La 3:51, "Mine eye affecteth mine heart"; the heart again affecting the eye. Under this sympathetic law of the relation of mind and body, Jesus, in His beautiful, tender humanity, was constituted even as we. What a contrast to the immediately preceding profound joy! He yielded Himself alike freely to both. (See on Mt 23:37.)