Matthew 23:37

James Moffatt - New Testament

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

Cross References

Matthew 23:30

and you say 'If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

Matthew 22:3

He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they would not come.

Matthew 5:12

rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men

Matthew 22:6

while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them.

Revelation 17:6

Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and as I looked at her I marvelled greatly.

Luke 15:28

This angered him, and he would not go in. His father came out and tried to appease him,

Matthew 23:31

So you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those who killed the prophets!