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, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
• Ps 91:4He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
• Ruth 2:12The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
• Deut 32:11–12As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
• Ps 17:8Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
• Prov 1:24–31Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
• Neh 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
• Jer 6:16–17Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
• Ps 36:7How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
• Ps 63:7Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
• Ps 57:1Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
• Luke 19:14–44But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
• Matt 5:12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
• Matt 23:30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
• Jer 35:15I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
• 2 Chr 24:21–22And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
• Hos 11:2As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
• Matt 22:3And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
• Luke 14:17–20And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
• Acts 7:51–52Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
• 1 Th 2:15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
• Matt 21:35–36And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
• Jer 42:9–13And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;
• Jer 25:3–7From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
• Rev 11:7–8And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
• Jer 44:4Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
• Jer 26:23And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
• Zech 1:4Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
• Jer 6:8Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
• Jer 2:30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Jer 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
• Isa 50:2Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
• Hos 11:7And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
• Ps 81:8–11Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
• Matt 22:6And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
• 2 Chr 36:15–16And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
• Jer 11:7–8For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
• Rev 17:6And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
• Luke 15:28And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
• Mark 12:3–6And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

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