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Those who surrounded the Saviour could not

understand His grief; but He wept for the city

that was doomed.

It had been the child of His care, and His

heart was filled with anguish as He realized

that it would soon be made desolate.

Had her people given heed to Christ's

teaching, and received Him as the Saviour,

Jerusalem would have “stood forever.”

She might have become the queen of

kingdoms, free in the strength of her God-

given power.

There would then have been no armed

soldiers waiting at her gates, no Roman

banners waving from her walls.

From Jerusalem the dove of peace would

have gone to all nations. She would have been

the crowning glory of the world.

But the Jews had rejected their Saviour; they

were about to crucify their King. And when