Matthew 23:37

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Matthew 23:35–39 · Berean Standard Bible

35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

36 Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.

39 For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

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Jeremiah 4:14

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

Jeremiah 6:8

Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Revelation 11:8

Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.

Matthew 23:30

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

Matthew 5:12

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

Matthew 21:35

But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Matthew 21:36

Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.

Matthew 22:6

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

2 Chronicles 24:21

But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

Jeremiah 2:30

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

Jeremiah 26:23

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

Mark 12:3

But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

Mark 12:4

Then he sent them another servant, and they struck him over the head and treated him shamefully.

Mark 12:5

He sent still another, and this one they killed. He sent many others; some they beat and others they killed.

Mark 12:6

Finally, having one beloved son, he sent him to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

Luke 20:11

So he sent another servant, but they beat him and treated him shamefully, sending him away empty-handed.

Luke 20:12

Then he sent a third, but they wounded him and threw him out.

Luke 20:13

‘What shall I do?’ asked the owner of the vineyard. ‘I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.’

Luke 20:14

But when the tenants saw the son, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

Acts 7:51

You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

Revelation 11:7

When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.

Revelation 17:6

I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.

2 Chronicles 36:15

Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

Psalms 81:8

Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!

Psalms 81:9

There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.

Psalms 81:10

I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.

Psalms 81:11

But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

Jeremiah 6:17

I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen for the sound of the ram’s horn.’ But they answered, ‘We will not listen!’

Jeremiah 11:7

For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’

Jeremiah 11:8

Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”

Jeremiah 25:3

“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

Jeremiah 25:4

And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.

Jeremiah 25:5

The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.

Jeremiah 25:6

Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’

Jeremiah 25:7

‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’

Jeremiah 35:15

Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.

Jeremiah 42:9

Jeremiah told them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition:

Jeremiah 42:10

‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.

Jeremiah 42:11

Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear; do not be afraid of him, declares the LORD, for I am with you to save you and deliver you from him.

Jeremiah 42:12

And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land.’

Jeremiah 42:13

But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ and you thus disobey the voice of the LORD your God,

Jeremiah 44:4

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’

Zechariah 1:4

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

Deuteronomy 32:11

As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.

Deuteronomy 32:12

The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.

Ruth 2:12

May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”

Psalms 17:8

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

Psalms 36:7

How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!

Psalms 57:1

Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.

Psalms 63:7

For You are my help; I will sing for joy in the shadow of Your wings.

Psalms 91:4

He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.

Matthew 22:3

He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.

Proverbs 1:24

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

Proverbs 1:25

because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

Proverbs 1:26

in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

Proverbs 1:27

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

Proverbs 1:29

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Proverbs 1:30

They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

Proverbs 1:31

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Isaiah 50:2

Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

Hosea 11:2

But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.

Luke 14:17

When it was time for the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

Luke 14:18

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first one said, ‘I have bought a field, and I need to go see it. Please excuse me.’

Luke 14:19

Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out. Please excuse me.’

Luke 14:20

Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, so I cannot come.’

Luke 15:28

The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

Luke 19:14

But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’

Luke 19:15

When he returned from procuring his kingship, he summoned the servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what each one had earned.

Luke 19:16

The first servant came forward and said, ‘Master, your mina has produced ten more minas.’

Luke 19:17

His master replied, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

Luke 19:18

The second servant came and said, ‘Master, your mina has made five minas.’

Luke 19:19

And to this one he said, ‘You shall have authority over five cities.’

Luke 19:20

Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth.

Luke 19:21

For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

Luke 19:22

His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

Luke 19:23

Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’

Luke 19:24

Then he told those standing by, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’

Luke 19:25

‘Master,’ they said, ‘he already has ten!’

Luke 19:26

He replied, ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more; but the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

Luke 19:27

And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”

Luke 19:28

After Jesus had said this, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

Luke 19:29

As He approached Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, He sent out two of His disciples,

Luke 19:30

saying, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.

Luke 19:31

If anyone asks, ‘Why are you untying it?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it.’”

Luke 19:32

So those who were sent went out and found it just as Jesus had told them.

Luke 19:33

As they were untying the colt, its owners asked, “Why are you untying the colt?”

Luke 19:34

“The Lord needs it,” they answered.

Luke 19:35

Then they led the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks over it, and put Jesus on it.

Luke 19:36

As He rode along, the people spread their cloaks on the road.

Luke 19:37

And as He approached the descent from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of disciples began to praise God joyfully in a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen:

Luke 19:38

“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

Luke 19:39

But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples!”

Luke 19:40

“I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.”

Luke 19:41

As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it

Luke 19:42

and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

Luke 19:43

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

Luke 19:44

They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”