Matthew 23:37

The Passion Translation

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem—you are the city that murders your prophets! You are the city that stones the very messengers who were sent to deliver you! So many times I have longed to gather a wayward people, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings—but you were too stubborn to let me.

Cross References

Ruth 2:12

May Yahweh reward you for your sacrifices, and because of what you’ve done, may you have a full and rich reward from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to find shelter!”

Psalm 91:4

His massive arms are wrapped around you, protecting you. You can run under his covering of majesty and hide. His arms of faithfulness are a shield keeping you from harm.

Psalm 17:8

Protect me from harm; keep an eye on me as you would a child who is reflected in the twinkling of your eye. Yes, hide me within the shelter of your embrace, under your outstretched wings.

Psalm 36:7

O God, how extravagant is your cherishing love! All mankind can find a hiding place under the shadow of your wings.

Jeremiah 35:15

I have repeatedly sent my servants the prophets to you, saying, “Repent, every one of you, from your evil actions and correct the way you’ve been living. Do not chase after other gods to serve them, and you will continue to live on the land I gave to you and your ancestors.” But you have not paid attention or listened to me.

Matthew 23:30

Then you boast, ‘If we had lived back then, we would not have joined them in killing the prophets.’

Matthew 22:3

On the day the festivities were set to begin, he sent his servants to summon all the invited guests, but they chose not to come.

Matthew 5:12

So leap for joy—since your heavenly reward is great. For you are being rejected the same way the prophets were before you.

Psalm 57:1

Please, God, show me mercy! Open your grace-fountain for me, for you are my soul’s true shelter. I will hide beneath the shadow of your embrace, under the wings of your cherubim, until this terrible trouble is past.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and ran us out of town. They are offending God and hostile to everyone else

Jeremiah 44:4

Yet I kept sending you my servants the prophets to plead with you to stop doing such detestable things, which I hate with a passion!

Matthew 22:6

And the rest seized the king’s messengers and shamefully mistreated them, and even killed them.

Jeremiah 26:23

who brought Uriah back from Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim. The king executed Uriah with the sword and had his body thrown into the common burial ground.

Jeremiah 6:8

Learn your lesson, Jerusalem, lest I turn my back on you in disgust and make the whole land desolate, a land where no one lives!”

Jeremiah 4:14

Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be rescued. How long will evil thoughts and harmful schemes find a resting place in you?

Jeremiah 2:30

“I’ve wasted my time punishing you because you did not respond to my correction. With the ferocity of a hungry lion, you murdered the prophets I sent to you.

Isaiah 50:2

When I came to you, why was no one there? When I called, why did no one answer? Am I powerless to rescue you or too weak to deliver you? With only a threat I can evaporate the sea and dry up the rivers as a desert, leaving the fish to rot and die of thirst.

Revelation 17:6

I saw the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy believers—drunk on the blood of the loyal martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was utterly astonished!

Luke 15:28

“The older son became angry and refused to go in and celebrate. So his father came out and pleaded with him, ‘Come and enjoy the feast with us!’

Isaiah 5:4

What more could I have done for my vineyard? When I expected it to bear luscious grapes, why did it produce only wild, worthless grapes?

Jeremiah 32:31

From the day they built this city, these people have made me angry and furious. Therefore, I will destroy it

Jeremiah 36:26

Then he commanded Prince Jerahmeel, together with Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to arrest me and my scribe Baruch, but Yahweh had hidden us.

Matthew 23:31

But your words and deeds testify that you are just like them and prove that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.