Luke 19:41

ἰδὼν τὴν πόλιν. The Temple was at that time magnificent with gilding and white marble, which flashed resplendently in the spring sunlight (Jos. B. J. Luke 19:5, § 6), and the city was very unlike the crumbling and squalid city of to-day. But that “mass of gold and snow” woke no pride in the Saviour’s heart. Few scenes are more striking than this burst of anguish in the very midst of the exulting procession.

ἔκλαυσεν. Not merely ἐδάκρυσεν ‘shed silent tears,’ as at the grave of Lazarus (John 11:35), but ἔκλαυσεν ‘wept aloud;’ and that although not all the agonies and insults of four days later could wring from Him one tear or sigh.