Matthew 23:37

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem,   who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks   under her wings, but you were not willing!

Cross References

Ruth 2:12

May the Lord reward you for what you have done,  and may you receive a full reward from the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.’

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They flung your law behind their backs and killed your prophets who warned them in order to turn them back to you. They committed terrible blasphemies.

Jeremiah 35:15

Time and time again  I have sent you all my servants the prophets, proclaiming, ‘Turn, each one from his evil way,  and correct your actions. Stop following other gods to serve them.  Live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors.’ But you did not pay attention or obey me.

Matthew 23:30

and you say, “If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we wouldn’t have taken part with them in shedding the prophets’ blood.”

Matthew 22:3

He sent his servants to summon those invited to the banquet,   but they didn’t want to come.

Matthew 5:12

Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted   the prophets who were before you.

Hosea 11:2

Israel called to the Egyptians even as Israel was leaving them. They kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed the Lord Jesus  and the prophets and persecuted us.  They displease God and are hostile to everyone,

Jeremiah 44:4

So I sent you all my servants the prophets time and time again,  , saying, “Don’t commit this detestable action that I hate.”

Matthew 22:6

while the rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

Zechariah 1:4

Do not be like your ancestors;  the earlier prophets proclaimed to them:  This is what the Lord of Armies says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds.  But they did not listen or pay attention to me #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning from me. Though they call to him on high, he will not exalt them at all.

Jeremiah 26:23

They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who executed him with the sword and threw his corpse into the burial place of the common people.

Jeremiah 6:8

Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitants.

Jeremiah 4:14

Wash the evil from your heart,   Jerusalem, so that you will be delivered. How long will you harbour malicious thoughts?

Jeremiah 2:30

I have struck down your children in vain; they would not accept discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.

Isaiah 50:2

Why was no one there when I came? Why was there no one to answer when I called? Is my arm too weak to redeem? Or do I have no power to rescue? Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke; I turn the rivers into a wilderness; their fish rot because of lack of water and die of thirst.

Revelation 17:6

Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.  When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.

Luke 15:28

‘Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?

Jeremiah 32:31

‘for this city has caused my wrath and fury from the day it was built until now. I will therefore remove it from my presence

Jeremiah 36:26

Then the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to seize the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah, but the Lord hid them.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them,  for they fled from me; destruction to them, for they rebelled against me! Though I want to redeem them, they speak lies against me.

Matthew 23:31

So you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.