Luke 23

As the Savior approached Jerusalem in His final week, as -

"...he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it," (New Testament | Luke 19:41)

This weeping was not necesarily about the city, but about it's inhabitants, as he said -

"...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.
43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." (New Testament | Luke 19:42 - 44)

For He had said sometime earlier -

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!" (New Testament | Luke 13:34)

The Savior understood the prophecies as well as the events that would transpire for this people that would cruxify their Lord. I was touched by the words of the Savior after having suffered in Gethsemane, all evening and morning at the hands of the Jewish leaders and Roman soldiers, and now in a most weakened state while enroute to Calvary, still manages to look with compassion upon the lamenting Jewish woman, saying to them -

"...Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" (New Testament | Luke 23:28 - 31)

Upon reading such a statement, one cannot help but ask - "what manner of man is this?" The events so prophecied did come to pass with -

"...the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet..." (New Testament | Matthew 24:15)