Luke 19:42

19:42 saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

sn On this day. They had missed the time of Messiah’s coming; see v. 44.

tn Grk “the things toward peace.” This expression seems to mean “the things that would ‘lead to,’ ‘bring about,’ or ‘make for’ peace.”

sn But now they are hidden from your eyes. This becomes an oracle of doom in the classic OT sense; see Luke 13:31-35; 11:49-51; Jer 9:2; 13:7; 14:7. They are now blind and under judgment (Jer 15:5; Ps 122:6).