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LUKE 19:48 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 19:47Luke 20
“And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.”
Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words — they could not find any way because all the people hung on his words (exekremmato autou akouōn, were hanging from him listening): the crowd's passionate attention to Jesus' teaching made the arrest impossible without provoking popular unrest. The protection of Jesus during the temple week is the people's enthusiasm for his teaching.

Church Fathers on Luke 19:48

When He had related the evils that were to come upon the city, He straightway entered the temple, that He might cast out them that bought and sold in it. Showing that the destruction of the people arose chiefly from the guilt of the priests.

Gregory the Great · 6th century

For God wishes not His temple to be a house of traffic, but the dwelling-place of holiness, nor does He fix the priestly service in a salable performance of religion, but in a free and willing obedience

Ambrose · 4th century

Now there were in the temple a number of sellers who sold animals, by the custom of the law, for the sacrificial victims, but the time was now come for the shadows to pass away, and the truth of Christ to shine forth. Therefore Christ, who together with the Father was worshipped in the temple, commanded the customs of the law to be reformed, but the temple to become a house of prayer; as it is added, My house, &c.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century
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