As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.”

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.

“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, ‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”

“I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”

So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”

Jesus … looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

Lu 19:41-42; Mt 12:12-13, Is 56:7, Je 7:11; Mt 12:14-15; Mt 12:16, Ps 8:2; Lu 19:39; Lu 19:40; Jo 12:19; Mk 11:11

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