ground and your children with you, and not leave stone upon stone within you,
for you did not recognize the time and the visitation of your God.”
REFLECTION:
The word translated "wept" is the Greek verb klaio, "weep, cry, bewail.
"[1] Jesus bursts into sobbing. He weeps for their blindness, just observed in the P
harisees who would still the praise of his followers. But is the blindness their fault?
The word translated "hidden" is the Greek verb krupto (from which we get the English word "cryptography"),
meaning "to keep from being seen, 'hide,' specifically here 'withdraw from sight or knowledge, hide, keep secret.' "[2]
Does God hide the truth from them? The Apostle Paul writes, "The god of this age has
blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,
who is the image of God" (2 Corinthians 4:4). Jesus calls the Pharisees "blind guides"
(Matthew 23:24; see Luke 6:39). There is a sense in which God has blinded them (John 12:40),
but only those who are willfully rebellious against the truths he is teaching.
Willful blindness has caused a greater blindness still.
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