Matthew 23:37

Catholic Public Domain Version

Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone those who have been sent to you. How often I have wanted to gather your children together, in the way that a hen gathers her young under her wings. But you were not willing!

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

But they provoked you to wrath, and they withdrew from you, and they cast your law behind their backs. And they killed your prophets, who contended with them so that they might return to you. And they committed great blasphemies.

Psalm 17:8

The earth was shaken, and it trembled. The foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and they were shaken, because he was angry with them.

Psalm 36:7

Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Do not choose to compete with him who prospers in his way, with the man who does injustice.

Psalm 57:1

Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title.

Psalm 63:7

They have been searching carefully for iniquities. Their exhaustive search has failed. Man will approach with a deep heart,

Psalm 91:4

upon the ten strings, upon the psaltery, with a canticle, upon stringed instruments.

Isaiah 5:4

What more should I have done for my vineyard that I did not do for it? Should I not have expected it to produce grapes, though it produced wild vines?

Isaiah 50:2

For I arrived, and there was no man. I called out, and there was no one who would hear. Has my hand been shortened and become small, so that I am unable to redeem? Or is there no power in me to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke, I will make the sea into a desert. I will turn rivers into dry land. The fish will rot for lack of water and will die of thirst.

Jeremiah 2:30

I have struck your children to no effect; they have not accepted discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets. Your generation is like a raging lion.

Jeremiah 26:23

And they led Uriah out of Egypt. And they brought him to king Jehoiakim, and he struck him down with the sword. And he cast his dead body among the graves of the common people."

Jeremiah 32:31

For this city has been a cause of fury and indignation to me, from the day when they built it, until this day, in which it will be taken away from my sight,

Jeremiah 35:15

And I have sent to you all my servants, the prophets, rising at first light, and sending, and saying: 'Convert, each one from his wicked way, and make your intentions good. And do not choose to follow strange gods, nor shall you worship them. And then you shall live in the land which I gave to you and to your fathers.' And yet you have not inclined your ear, and you have not heeded me.

Jeremiah 36:26

And the king instructed Jerahmeel, the son of Amelech, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, so that they would apprehend Baruch, the scribe, and Jeremiah, the prophet. But the Lord concealed them.

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash your heart from malice, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will harmful thoughts abide in you?

Jeremiah 44:4

And I sent to you all my servants, the prophets, rising in the night, and sending, and saying: 'Do not choose to do this abominable word, which I hate.'

Jeremiah 6:8

O Jerusalem, accept instruction, lest perhaps my soul may withdraw from you; lest perhaps I may set you in a desert, in an uninhabitable land."

Hosea 11:2

They called them, and so they departed before their face. They offered victims to the Baals, and they sacrificed to graven images.

Hosea 11:7

And my people will long for my return. But a yoke will be imposed on them together, which will not be taken away.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have withdrawn from me. They will waste away because they have been dishonest with me. And I redeemed them, and they have spoken lies against me.

Zechariah 1:4

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, saying: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn from your evil ways and from your wicked thoughts. But they did not heed, and neither did they pay attention to me, says the Lord.

Matthew 22:3

And he sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding. But they were not willing to come.

Matthew 22:6

Yet truly, the rest took hold of his servants and, having treated them with contempt, killed them.

Matthew 23:30

And then you say, 'If we had been there in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined with them in the blood of the prophets.'

Matthew 23:31

And so you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets.

Matthew 5:12

be glad and exult, for your reward in heaven is plentiful. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Luke 15:28

Then he became indignant, and he was unwilling to enter. Therefore, his father, going out, began to plead with him.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who also killed both the Lord Jesus, and the Prophets, and who have persecuted us. But they do not please God, and so they are adversaries to all men.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw that the woman was inebriated from the blood of the saints and from the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I was amazed, when I had seen her, with a great wonder.

Ruth 2:12

May the Lord repay you for your work, and may you receive a full reward from the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you have come, and under whose wings you have taken refuge."