Malachi 3:1
1 a“Behold, I send bmy messenger, and che will prepare the way before me. And the Lord dwhom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and ethe messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.Matthew 21:10-16
10And fwhen he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” 11And the crowds said, “This is gthe prophet Jesus, hfrom Nazareth of Galilee.”Jesus Cleanses the Temple
12 iAnd Jesus entered the temple ▼▼Some manuscripts add of God
and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of kthe money-changers and the seats of those who sold lpigeons. 13He said to them, “It is written, m‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but nyou make it a den of robbers.” 14 oAnd the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 pBut when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, q“Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; rhave you never read,
s“‘Out of the mouth of tinfants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise’?”
Luke 19:41-45
Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
41 uAnd when he drew near and saw the city, vhe wept over it, 42saying, w“Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now xthey are hidden from your eyes. 43For ythe days will come upon you, when your enemies zwill set up a barricade around you and aasurround you and hem you in on every side 44 aband tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And acthey will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know adthe time of your aevisitation.”Jesus Cleanses the Temple
45 afAnd he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold,
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