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Matthew 23: Woes on the scribes and Pharisees, and a lament over Jerusalem

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Matthew 21:17ESV

And leaving them, he went out of the city to and lodged there.

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

Matthew 24:3ESV

As he sat on the , the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

Matthew 21
Matthew 24

Jesus speaks to the crowds and his disciples against the scribes and Pharisees who sit on Moses' seat, and pronounces seven woes on them, over oaths by the temple and its gold, tithes, cups, whitewashed tombs and the tombs of the prophets. He ends by lamenting over Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to it, and tells it that its house is left to it desolate.

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Verse 37: Jerusalem, the city Jesus laments over as the one that kills the prophets.

  • Verse 37: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem", the city that kills the prophets, whose children Jesus would have gathered; verse 38 tells it its house is left desolate. The temple he names in the oaths of verses 16 to 21 is in this city. All 500 votes place it at Jerusalem.

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Matthew 23, verse by verse

  1. Matthew 23:37“O , , the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!