Matthew 23:37

New International Version

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.

Cross References

Ruth 2:12

May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

Psalm 91:4

He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

Psalm 17:8

Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings

Psalm 36:7

How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Nehemiah 9:26

“But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law. They killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.

Psalm 63:7

Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

Jeremiah 35:15

Again and again I sent all my servants the prophets to you. They said, “Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and reform your actions; do not follow other gods to serve them. Then you will live in the land I have given to you and your ancestors.” But you have not paid attention or listened to me.

Matthew 23:30

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

Matthew 22:3

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

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Hosea 11:2

But the more they were called, the more they went away from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.

Psalm 57:1

Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone

Jeremiah 44:4

Again and again I sent my servants the prophets, who said, ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate!’

Matthew 22:6

The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.

Zechariah 1:4

Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.

Hosea 11:7

My people are determined to turn from me. Even though they call me God Most High, I will by no means exalt them.

Jeremiah 26:23

They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him struck down with a sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.)

Jeremiah 6:8

Take warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it.”

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?

Jeremiah 2:30

“In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion.

Isaiah 50:2

When I came, why was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Was my arm too short to deliver you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert; their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

Revelation 17:6

I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.

Luke 15:28

“The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?

Jeremiah 32:31

From the day it was built until now, this city has so aroused my anger and wrath that I must remove it from my sight.

Jeremiah 36:26

Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the Lord had hidden them.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak about me falsely.

Matthew 23:31

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