Jesus answered, "My Peter, the fate of this unhappy city goes to my heart."
Then said John, "Lord, tell us what shall this fate be?"
Jesus answered and said unto them, "The days will come when her enemies will make a trench about her walls and close her in on every side, and lay her even with the ground. She and her children within her walls will be dashed to the earth, and not one stone will be left upon another."
Andrew, giving expression to the general consternation, asked, "Wherefore shall the city have so sad a doom?"
Jesus said, "Because she hath not known the day of her visitation. Alas! she who hath slain the prophets will kill the Messiah himself."
Then spoke all the disciples together, "What a terrible deed!"
James, the elder, said, "God forbid that the city of Jehovah should bring such a curse upon herself."
And John with pleading voice added, "Dearest master, for the sake of the holy city and the temple, I beg of thee go not thither, so that the opportunity may be wanting to those evil men to do the worst."
"Or," said Peter, "go thither and display thyself in all thy majesty, so that the good may rejoice and the evil tremble."
"Yes," cried all the twelve eagerly, "do that."