Matthew 23:37

Jesus laments over Jerusalem, longing to gather her children as a hen gathers her chicks, but they were unwilling. It reveals his deep compassion alongside the people's tragic refusal.

Cross-references · 40

• Luke 13:34–35O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
• Ps 91:4He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.
• Ruth 2:12May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”
• Deut 32:11–12As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.
• Ps 17:8Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
• Prov 1:24–31Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
• Neh 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
• Jer 6:16–17This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
• Ps 36:7How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
• Ps 63:7For You are my help; I will sing for joy in the shadow of Your wings.
• Ps 57:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
• Luke 19:14–44But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
• Matt 5:12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
• Matt 23:30And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
• Jer 35:15Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
• 2 Chr 24:21–22But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
• Hos 11:2But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
• Matt 22:3He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.
• Luke 14:17–20When it was time for the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’
• Acts 7:51–52You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
• 1 Th 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
• Matt 21:35–36But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
• Jer 42:9–13Jeremiah told them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition:
• Jer 25:3–7“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
• Rev 11:7–8When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.
• Jer 44:4Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
• Jer 26:23They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him put to the sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.
• Zech 1:4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.
• Jer 6:8Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”
• Jer 2:30“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
• Jer 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
• Isa 50:2Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
• Hos 11:7My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
• Ps 81:8–11Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!
• Matt 22:6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
• 2 Chr 36:15–16Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
• Jer 11:7–8For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’
• Rev 17:6I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.
• Luke 15:28The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.
• Mark 12:3–6But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

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