Matthew 23:37

God's Word

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone to death those sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together the way 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! May you receive a rich reward from the Lord God of Israel, under whose protection you have come for shelter.”

Psalm 91:4

He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge. His truth is your shield and armor.

Psalm 17:8

Guard me as if I were the pupil in your eye. Hide me in the shadow of your wings.

Psalm 36:7

Your mercy is so precious, O God, that Adam’s descendants take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were defiant and rebelled against you. They threw your teachings over their shoulders and killed your prophets who warned them to turn back to you. They committed outrageous sins.

Psalm 63:7

You have been my help. In the shadow of your wings, I sing joyfully.

Jeremiah 35:15

I have sent all my servants the prophets to you again and again. They said, “Turn from your evil ways, do what is right, and don’t follow other gods in order to serve them. Then you will live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors.” However, you refused to listen to me or obey me.

Matthew 23:30

Then you say, ‘If we had lived at the time of our ancestors, we would not have helped to murder the prophets.’

Matthew 22:3

He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the wedding, but they refused to come.

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and be glad because you have a great reward in heaven! The prophets who lived before you were persecuted in these ways.

Hosea 11:2

The more I called them, the farther they went away. They sacrificed to other gods—the Baals, and they burned incense to idols.

Psalm 57:1

Have pity on me, O God. Have pity on me, because my soul takes refuge in you. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until destructive storms pass by.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and who have persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God. They are enemies of the whole human race

Jeremiah 44:4

I have sent my servants the prophets to you again and again to tell you not to do these detestable things that I hate.

Matthew 22:6

The rest grabbed the king’s servants, mistreated them, and then killed them.

Zechariah 1:4

Don’t be like your ancestors, who heard the earlier prophets preach to them, ‘This is what the Lord of Armies says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds.’ But they didn’t listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.

Hosea 11:7

My people are determined to turn away from me. Even if they call to the Most High, he will not pardon them.

Jeremiah 26:23

They brought Uriah from Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim. The king executed Uriah and threw his body into the burial ground for the common people.

Jeremiah 6:8

Pay attention to my warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you. I will make your land desolate, a land where no one will live.

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be rescued. Don’t continue making evil plans.

Jeremiah 2:30

“I have punished your children without results. They didn’t respond to correction. You killed my prophets like a raging lion.

Isaiah 50:2

Why was no one here when I came? Why was no one here to answer when I called? Am I too weak to reclaim you? Don’t I have the power to rescue you? I dry up the sea with my command, and I turn rivers into deserts. Their fish stink because there is no water, and people die of thirst.

Revelation 17:6

I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people and of those who testify about Jesus. I was very surprised when I saw her.

Luke 15:28

“Then the older son became angry and wouldn’t go into the house. His father came out and begged him to come in.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could have been done for my vineyard than what I have already done for it? When I waited for it to produce good grapes, why did it produce only sour, wild grapes?

Jeremiah 32:31

“The people in this city have made me so angry and furious from the day they built it to this day. So now I must remove this city from my presence.

Jeremiah 36:26

The king commanded Jerahmeel (the king’s son), Seraiah (son of Azriel), and Shelemiah (son of Abdeel) to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But the Lord had hidden Baruch and Jeremiah.

Hosea 7:13

“How horrible it will be for these people. They have run away from me. They must be destroyed because they’ve rebelled against me. I want to reclaim them, but they tell lies about me.

Matthew 23:31

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