Matthew 23:37
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that are killing the prophets, and stoning those sent to you, how often I willed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her own chickens under the wings, and you did not will.
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In Context
36truly I say to you, all these things will come on this generation.
38Behold, your house is left to you desolate;
Cross References
Ruth 2:12YHWH repays your work, and your reward is complete from YHWH, God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”
2 Chronicles 36:15And YHWH, God of their fathers, sends to them by the hand of His messengers—rising early and sending—for He has had pity on His people and on His habitation,
Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings,
Psalms 57:1TO THE OVERSEER. “DO NOT DESTROY.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID, IN HIS FLEEING FROM THE FACE OF SAUL INTO A CAVE. Favor me, O God, favor me, || For my soul is trusting in You, || And I trust in the shadow of Your wings, || Until the calamities pass over.
Psalms 81:8Hear, O My people, and I testify to you, || O Israel, if you listen to me:
Proverbs 1:24Because I have called, and you refuse, || I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
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 →