Luke 19:41-44

When he saw it he wept over it. Only Luke gives these words. This is a lot like what Jesus predicted in Matthew 24:15-22. Compare notes there. Only one other place speaks of Jesus weeping (John 11:35). If you only knew today. This was the time of opportunity and peace. But unbelief made it impossible for them to see the truth. What is needed for peace. If they had believed in Christ, they would not have rebelled against Rome, Jerusalem would not have been destroyed, and the 1,100,000 who were killed in that horror would not have died (see note on Matthew 24:21). They could have had earthly peace, as well as the peace of God, but they did not want it! Will surround you with barricades. The Roman soldiers built barricades to blockade the city and starve it into surrender. Inside the city civil war raged, they destroyed their own food supplies, and the thousands died at the hands of their own people (see note on Matthew 24:21). Not a single stone. This is how complete the destruction would be! The soldiers may have believed gold had been hidden between the stones, and they dismantled the entire city completely! Because you did not recognize the time. Christ had come to save them from their doom. Because they would not listen and repent, a double measure of God's wrath would come on them (Matthew 23:35-36).