Matthew 23:38

Verily, your house is left to you desolate!

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In The King James Version

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

In Context

37Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who slays the prophets and stones the messengers sent to her – Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not come!

39For nevermore, I tell you, will you see me, until you say – ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

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Cross References

Psalms 69:24Pour your indignation upon them, let your burning wrath overtake them.

Zechariah 11:6I will no longer have pity on the people of this earth, says the Lord. I will turn neighbor against neighbor, and put everyone under the power of a king, and when the land is devastated I will not rescue them.

Matthew 24:2“Do you see all these things?” was his answer. “I tell you, not a single stone will be left here on another, which 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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