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Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents
23:37-39 Lament over Jerusalem. Jerusalem apparently refers to the whole nation of Israel, for whom Jesus deeply laments.
23:38 house. In the OT, this is an expression for the temple; possibly here it has broader reference to Jerusalem's leadership. All Jewish religious authority will collapse with the destruction of the temple in .
23:39 As Jesus cites Ps. 118:26 (cf. Matt. 21:9), he identifies himself with God's Messiah and Savior who will once again come to his people, but only after a time of great judgment, when they are finally ready to receive him.
