Matthew 23:37
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
36Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
38Behold, you house shall be left to you, desolate.
Cross References
Ruth 2:12The Lord render unto thee for thy work, and mayest thou receive a full reward of the Lord the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, and under whose wings thou art fled.
2 Chronicles 36:15And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place.
Psalms 17:8From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings.
Psalms 57:1Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave
Psalms 81:8Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.
Proverbs 1:24Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 23:35-39
The Doom of the Pharisees; The Guilt and Doom of Jerusalem. 34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: 35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall… Read the whole commentary →