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Luke 19:42 Explained in Context
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Verse 42. 42Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
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Quick Meaning
Luke 19:42 advances Luke 19:41–19:44 at Luke 19:42 through this exact report: “Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes”.
Read It With
- Luke 19:41–19:44
Read Luke 19:42 with 19:41–19:44. In isolation, this contribution—advances Luke 19:41–19:44 at Luke 19:42 through this exact report: “Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes”—can be detached from its speaker, audience, scene or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: Seeing Jerusalem, Jesus weeps because it does not recognize what makes for peace and describes enemies enclosing, crushing, and dismantling the city for missing visitation.
What Remains True
Luke 19:42 advances Luke 19:41–19:44 at Luke 19:42 through this exact report: “Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes”. Read inside Luke 19:41–19:44, this contribution supports the unit's proportionate truth: Seeing Jerusalem, Jesus weeps because it does not recognize what makes for peace and describes enemies enclosing, crushing, and dismantling the city for missing visitation. Its use remains accountable to affected people and the unit's explicit boundary.
How It Can Shape Life
- Luke 19:42 advances Luke 19:41–19:44 at Luke 19:42 through this exact report: “Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes”. Its faithful response is proportionate to that role: Let Jesus' tears produce truthful lament, peacemaking, and protection of civilians; do not celebrate Jerusalem's suffering, blame Jews across time, or map the siege onto a modern war.
Continue in Context
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Read Luke 19:41–19:44 — Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem's Coming SiegeSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Luke 19:41–19:44, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations; the edition is not treated as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Luke.txt, 19:41–19:44
Open the Luke Greek text file ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Luke
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, KJV-language clarification, historical notes, Synoptic parallels, and textual alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Luke PDF, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to Luke 19:41–19:44
Open source ↗