24. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25. Know therefore and understand, that from the
week of the
going forth of the commandment
of Artaxerxes
to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be 7 weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
How troublous is told by Nehemiah where he says: “we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work. And it came to pass from that time forth, the half of my servants wrought in the work and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows and the coats of mail."
26. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come
the Romans under Petronius in A.D. 40 and under Titus in A.D. 66
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.