...on our level. He identified with our problems and needs. He showed His great concern when He cried, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets...chicks under her wings, but you were not willing" (Matt. 23:37). The writer to the Hebrews captured the thrust of this when he said, "Remember those...

...chose what I forbade" [Isa. 65:12]. The Lord himself says in the Gospel, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone those sent to you. How often I have desired to gather your children as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But you refused" [Matt....

...and Luke have placed this apostrophe in very different portions of their Gospel.321 When Jesus says, 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and...gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing',322 we are reminded of the lament of God over His wayward children in Hosea, or, since feminine...

...Spirit!" (Acts 7:51). In Matthew 23:37, Jesus laments the frustration of God's will by his own people: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets...often I have longed to gather your children together, . . . but you were not willing." In Mark 6:5, the evangelist reports bluntly that Jesus was prevented...

.... . gathering lambs in his arms, holding them against his breast. . . Mt 23:37-39 "How often have I longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings ..." Mk 1:39-41 A man suffering . . . came to him and pleaded on his knees . . . Feeling sorry for...

...momentary outcry. It was the abiding yearning of His all-consuming love. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem . . . how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings" (Luke 13:34). Ceaselessly He weeps as He looks out across our world. As He weeps over our cities and...

...amply demonstrated. A particularly tender expression of it is found in Jesus' lament over Jerusalem: "How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings" (Lk 13:34). Paul parallels this deep yearning for the wholeness and salvation of his own people when...

...children in the same manner as the mother bird gathers in her brood under her wings. When Jesus says, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and...often I have longed to gather your children together (just) as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing," we are reminded of the...

...Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted rong east wind all that night, and made the sea into...dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 So the ch 38 "See! Your house is left to you desolate; 39 "for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you...

...between the temple and the altar. -'M tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation. 37"O wal < 3^For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say. 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of...