Matthew 23:37

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their backs and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

Psalm 17:8

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

Psalm 36:7

How precious is your steadfast love, O God! All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Psalm 57:1

Be merciful to me, O God; be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, until the destroying storms pass by.

Psalm 63:7

for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I sing for joy.

Psalm 91:4

he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and defense.

Isaiah 5:4

What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield rotten grapes?

Isaiah 50:2

Why was no one there when I came? Why did no one answer when I called? Is my arm powerless to redeem? Or have I no strength to deliver? By my rebuke I dry up the sea; I make the rivers a desert, so that their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have struck down your children; they accepted no correction. Your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 26:23

and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and threw his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

Jeremiah 32:31

This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built until this day, so that I will remove it from my sight

Jeremiah 35:15

I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, “Turn now every one of you from your evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall live in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors.” But you did not incline your ear or obey me.

Jeremiah 36:26

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son and Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the secretary Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. But the Lord hid them.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart clean of wickedness so that you may be saved. How long shall your evil schemes lodge within you?

Jeremiah 44:4

Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, “I beg you not to do this abominable thing that I hate!”

Jeremiah 6:8

Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I shall turn from you in disgust and make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.

Hosea 11:2

The more I called them, the more they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and offering incense to idols.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning away from me. To the Most High they call, but he does not raise them up at all.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

Zechariah 1:4

Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or heed me, says the Lord.

Matthew 22:3

He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come.

Matthew 22:6

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

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 23:31

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

Matthew 5:12

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

Luke 15:28

Then he became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and began to plead with him.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and drove us out; they displease God and oppose everyone

Revelation 17:6

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

Ruth 2:12

May the Lord reward you for your deeds, and may you have a full reward from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge!”