Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem The words were perhaps spoken again in the Great Denunciation of the Tuesday in Passion Week, Matthew 23:37.

which killest the prophets "It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers" (Isaiah 1:21). See Luke 11:47; Luke 20:14; Matthew 23:34; 2Es 1:32, "I sent unto you my servants the prophets whom ye have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require of your hands, saith the Lord."

how often This, like other passages in the Synoptists, impliesmore frequent visits to Jerusalem than they actually record.

as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings A metaphor still more tender and appealing than that of the eagle which "stirrethup her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings" of Deuteronomy 32:11-12.

ye would not In contrast with the "would I" of Luke 13:34; it indicates "the sad privilege which man possesses of resisting the most serious influences of grace."