Matthew 23:38

Look, your house is left to you abandoned!

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

In Context

37“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, she who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children, just like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you did not want to.

39For I say to you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord’!”

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Cross References

Matthew 24:2But Jesus said to them: “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly I say to you, absolutely not a single stone here will be left upon another, that will not be thrown down.”

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 →

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