Luke 13:34

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Luke 13:34

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Summary

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

Jerusalem

Luke 19:41

Matthew 23:37

Killest

How

Isaiah 50:2

Thy

And ye

General references

Matthew 21:35

Luke 3:20

John 7:34

Bible References

Jerusalem

When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

Killest

So they conspired against him and at the command of the king they stoned him to death in the court of the house of the Lord.

The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them again and again by His messengers, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place;

“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You,
And cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets who had admonished them
So that they might return to You,
And they committed great blasphemies.

“In vain I have struck your sons;
They accepted no chastening.
Your sword has devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.

And they brought Uriah from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who slew him with a sword and cast his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

Because of the sins of her prophets
And the iniquities of her priests,
Who have shed in her midst
The blood of the righteous;

The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

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

Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;

Saul was in hearty agreement with putting him to death.

And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

How

Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, that it may be well with them and with their sons forever!

“Would that they were wise, that they understood this,

That they would discern their future!

“I, the Lord, am your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt;

Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
“I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit,
Who leads you in the way you should go.

“Why was there no man when I came?
When I called, why was there none to answer?
Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke,
I make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink for lack of water
And die of thirst.

Thy

and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

Let Israel be glad in his Maker;
Let the sons of Zion rejoice in their King.

“For these things I weep;

My eyes run down with water;

Because far from me is a comforter,
One who restores my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.”

So rejoice, O sons of Zion,
And be glad in the Lord your God;
For He has given you the early rain for your vindication.
And He has poured down for you the rain,
The early and

latter rain as before.

Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

And ye

But he became angry and was not willing to go in; and his father came out and began pleading with him.

“However, You bore with them for many years,
And admonished them by Your Spirit through Your prophets,
Yet they would not give ear.
Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

“But My people did not listen to My voice,
And Israel did not obey Me.

“Because I called and you refused,
I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;

For thus the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said,
“In repentance and rest you will be saved,
In quietness and trust is your strength.”
But you were not willing,

Thus says the Lord,
“Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths,
Where the good way is, and walk in it;
And you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.’

“The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are observed. So they do not drink wine to this day, for they have obeyed their father’s command. But I have spoken to you

again and again; yet you have not listened to Me.

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets, again and again, saying, “Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate.”

The more

they called them,

The more they went from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to idols.

“Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.”’ But they did not listen or give heed to Me,” declares the Lord.

And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come.

But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

General references

The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

Herod also added this to them all: he locked John up in prison.

You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”