peace” (19:42); later he adds, “and they will not leave in you a stone standing on a stone, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation” (v. 44). It is Luke alone among the evangelists who makes explicit the connection between the entry and God’s judgment on the city (cf. Mark 11). Indeed, this connection might strike the modern reader as perplexing and a little out of character, for after Jesus is greeted outside Jerusalem the tenor of the episode turns quickly from joy to lament.