Matthew 23:37

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

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

Psalm 17:8

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

Psalm 36:7

How precious is thy steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of thy wings.

Psalm 57:1

Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in thee my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.

Psalm 63:7

for thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy 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 buckler.

Isaiah 5:4

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

Isaiah 50:2

Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water, and die of thirst.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain have I smitten your children, they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 26:23

and they fetched Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who slew him with the sword and cast 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 to 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 his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.

Jeremiah 36:26

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son and Seraiah the son of Azri-el and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the Lord hid them.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Jeremiah 44:4

Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!’

Jeremiah 6:8

Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be alienated from you; lest I 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 burning incense to idols.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning away from me; so they are appointed to the yoke, and none shall remove it.

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

Be not like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘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

and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come.

Matthew 22:6

while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.

Matthew 23:30

saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

Matthew 23:31

Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 5:12

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

Luke 15:28

But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him,

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all men

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her I marveled greatly.

Ruth 2:12

The Lord recompense you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”