Matthew 23:37-39. Luke (Luke 13:34-35) inserts this lamentation at an earlier point of the history. It was probably uttered twice, if but once, on this occasion, when it was peculiarly fitting. Comp. also Luke 19:41-44, where we find another lamentation over the city on His triumphant progress towards it.
Verse Matthew 23:37. _O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM_] 1. It is evident that our blessed Lord seriously and earnestly wished the salvation of the Jews. 2. That he did every thing that could be done, consist...
O JERUSALEM ... - See the notes at Luke 19:41. WOULD I HAVE GATHERED - Would have protected and saved. THY CHILDREN - Thy people....
11. THE WOES OF THE KING AND HIS LAMENTATION OVER JERUSALEM. CHAPTER 23 1. The Hypocrisy of the Pharisees.(Matthew 23:1 .) 2. The Woes of the King upon Them.(Matthew 23:13 .) 3. The Lamentation over...
LAMENT OVER JERUSALEM (Luke 13:34 f.*). Matthew 23:37 may be part of the utterance ascribed by Jesus to the Wisdom of God. If not, Jesus is referring not so much to His earlier visits to Jerusalem as...
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killer of the prophets, stoner of those sent to you, how often have I wished to gather your children together, as a bird gathers her nestlings under her wings--and you refused....
SCRIBES AND PHARISEES (Matthew 23:1-39) If a man is characteristically and temperamentally an irritable, ill-tempered and irascible creature, notoriously given to uncontrolled outbursts of passionate...
CHICKENS. brood. Greek. _nossia._ Occurs only here. WOULD NOT. were not willing. App-102. NOT. Greek. _ou_ (App-105), denying as. matter of fact....
The Fate of Jerusalem 37. _Jerusalem, Jerusalem_ From Luke 13:34, it appears that our Lord spoke these words in a different connection at an earlier period of His ministry. For the pathetic reiteratio...
ἹΕΡΟΥΣΑΛΉΜ, ἹΕΡΟΥΣΑΛΉΜ. From Luke 13:34, it appears that our Lord spoke these words in a different connection at an earlier period of His ministry. For the pathetic reiteration of the name, cp. ch. Ma...
THE FATE OF JERUSALEM...
VER 37. "O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, THOU THAT KILLEST THE PROPHETS, AND STONEST THEM WHICH ARE SENT UNTO THEE, HOW OFTEN WOULD I HAVE GATHERED THY CHILDREN TOGETHER, EVEN AS A HEN GATHERETH HER CHICKENS...
_WEEPING OVER THE CITY OF JERUSALEM MATTHEW 23:34-39:_ God had done much to lead the Jews religiously. He sent prophets, wise men and scribes. The Jews rejected God's way and God's men. "Some of them...
ΆΠΟΚΤΕΊΝΟΥΣΑ _praes. act. part. voc. fem. sing. от_ ΆΠΟΚΤΕΊΝΩ (G615) убивать, ΛΙΘΟΒΟΛΟΎΣΑ _praes. act. part. voc. fem. sing. от_ ΛΙΘΟΒΟΛΈΩ (G3036) побивать камнями. Part, с арт. имеют почти что значе...
DISCOURSE: 1394 CHRIST’S COMPASSION AND MAN’S OBSTINACY CONTRASTED Matthew 23:37. _O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I...
O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM!— Our Lord having laid before the Pharisees andthenationtheirheinousguiltandgrievouspunishment,thethought of the calamities which were comingupon them moved him exceedingly: his...
TEXT: 23:37-39 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chicke...
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under he...
16 The Pharisees had practically annulled the Scriptures by false interpretations and especially by human additions. Their commentaries were full of distinctions which destroyed the spiritual force of...
23:37 I (e-20) Lit. 'I have willed,' 'desired.'...
DENUNCIATION OF THE PHARISEES 1-36. Final denunciation of the Scribes and Pharisees. The other synoptists insert in this place a brief utterance directed against the scribes (Mark 12:38; Luke 20:45),...
HOW OFTEN] 'It is fair to assume that Christ's exclamation over Jerusalem presupposes that the capital had repeatedly been the scene of His ministrations, which coincides with the visits on festival o...
PATHETIC LAMENT OVER JERUSALEM (Luke 13:34). St. Luke places these words in another, and much less suitable connexion. As they occur in St. Matthew they form a worthy close to our Lord's ministry in J...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 23 JESUS ACCUSES THE *PHARISEES 23:1-12 V1 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his *disciples. V2 ‘The men who teach the *Law and...
JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM. — The lamentation had been uttered once before (Luke 13:34), and must, we may believe, have been present to our Lord’s mind when He “beheld the city and wept over it” (Luke 19:41...
6; Matthew 22:1; Matthew 23:1 CHAPTER 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18 - Matthew 22:1 -...
Ἱερουσαλήμ, the Hebrew form of the name, exceptional in Mt., very appropriate to the solemn situation. Twice spoken; why? “It is the fashion of one pitying, bewailing, and greatly loving,” Chrys. ἀποκ...
_Apostrophe to the Holy City_ (Luke 13:34). Εἶτα πρὸς τὴν πόλιν ἀποστρέφει τὸν λόγον. Chrys., H. lxxiv....
JUDGMENT AND LAMENT Matthew 23:27-39 True goodness recognizes and rewards good in the living; while the evil-minded cannot, or will not, believe that the people whom they meet daily are purely and si...
This chapter is one of the most sublime and awful in the whole inspired volume. It records the last words of Jesus to the crowds. He summed up, He reached His verdict, He pronounced sentence. It is a...
(12) O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [thou] that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have (z) gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chicken...
And thou wouldst not. Three truths may be gathered from these words of our Saviour: 1. They, who perish, perish by their own fault, because they refuse to listen to the voice of God calling them to sa...
WOES AGAINST THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES Luke 20:47; Mark 12:40; Matthew 23:13-39. “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you devour the houses of widows, and through pretense make lo...
APOSTROPHE TO JERUSALEM Matthew 23:37-39. _“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how frequently did I wish to gather thy children, in the m...
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under he...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
_THE CALL REJECTED_ ‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth...
37._Jerusalem, Jerusalem. _By these words, Christ shows more clearly what good reason he had for indignation, that _Jerusalem, _which God had chosen to be his sacred, and — as we might say — heavenly...
Chapter 23 clearly shews how far the disciples are viewed in connection with the nation, inasmuch as they were Jews, although the Lord judges the leaders, who beguiled the people and dishonoured God b...
O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM,.... The metropolis of Judea, the seat of the kings of Judah, yea, the city of the great king; the place of divine worship, once the holy and faithful city, the joy of the whole...
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, _thou_ that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under _...
_O Jerusalem, Jerusalem_ The Lord Jesus having thus laid before the Pharisees and the Jewish nation their heinous guilt and impending ruin, was exceedingly moved at the thought of the calamities comin...
The reason why men are not saved is not that Christ is not able and willing to save them, nor that they are not under obligation to be saved, but that they will not come to him, or comply with the nee...
The lament:...
O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, THOU THAT KILLEST THE PROPHETS, AND STONEST THEM WHICH ARE SENT UNTO THEE, HOW OFTEN WOULD I HAVE GATHERED THY CHILDREN TOGETHER, EVEN AS A HEN GATHERETH HER CHICKENS UNDER HER...
The Lord now turns to speak to the entire crowd, His disciples being mentioned as included. He warns them against the hypocrisy of scribes and Pharisees, for they sat in Moses' seat as enforcers of th...
34-39 Our Lord declares the miseries the inhabitants of Jerusalem were about to bring upon themselves, but he does not notice the sufferings he was to undergo. A hen gathering her chickens under her...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 23:39"....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And, without using a parable, the Lord said to Jerusalem, `O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest those that are sent unto thee; how oft...
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WORDS IN THE TEMPLE (23:1-39). a Exhortation to His disciples and the crowds not to be like the Scribes and Pharisees, but to be doers and not hearers only. In contrast to the Scribes and Pharisees t...
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and...
JUDGMENT IS TO COME ON THAT GENERATION WHO WILL SLAY JESUS AND HIS FOLLOWERS IN THE FORM OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (23:37-39). Jesus finishes with a lament over Jerusalem. It is not just the Scr...
HOW OFTEN WOULD I HAVE GATHERED (ποσακις ηθελησα επισυναγειν). More exactly, how often did I long to gather to myself (double compound infinitive). The same verb (επισυναγε) is used of the hen with...
Matthew 23:37 I. One of the first things which strikes young children as they begin to grow up and look abroad in the world, is the wonderful parental instinct, as it is called, of dumb creatures that...
Matthew 23:29. _Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fat...
CONTENTS: Jesus denounces woes upon the Pharisees for their hypocrisy. His lament over Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: Jesus. CONCLUSION: Nothing is more displeasing to our Lord Jesus Christ than hyprocrisy,...
Matthew 23:2. _Sit in Moses' seat._ The sanhedrim had seventy one chairs of gold, or rather gilt with gold. The council which sat at Alexandria had also chairs of gold. The highpriest was the presiden...
JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM! The Jewish leaders were concentrated in Jerusalem. This makes it symbolic of the whole Nation. HOW MANY TIMES. The city had been warned many times by the prophets. Jesus had visi...
_O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets._ THE INVITATION REFUSED Consider some of the different modes in which the rejection of God’s call has been made. Far, all do not reject Him a...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 23:37 JERUSALEM apparently refers to the whole nation of Israel. ⇐...
CHAPTER 23 _Then Jesus spake_, &c. _Then_, that is to say, when, by His most wise answers and reasonings, He had confounded the errors of the Scribes and Pharisees, and had proved that He was the Mes...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 23:29. BUILD THE TOMBS, ETC.—See R.V. A portion of the temple offerings were devoted to this purpose. Matthew 23:31. THE CHILDREN.—You inherit their wickedness in compassing...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 23:1 _Denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees, and lamentation over Jerusalem which followed their guidance to her own destruction. _(Peculiar to St. Matthew.) MATTHEW 23:1 TH...
Matthew's gospel twenty-three. Jesus has been at the temple and He was challenged as to His authority by these priests, and then He was asked questions by the scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees. An...
1 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Chronicles 24:21; 2 Chronicles 24:22; 2 Chronicles 36:15;...
Hen [ο ρ ν ι ς]. Generic : bird or fowl; but hen is used generically of the mother - bird of all species....
Luke 13:34....
Our Lord concludes this chapter with. pathetical lamentation over Jerusalem. His ingemination or doubling of the word, O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, shews the vehemency of Christ's affection towards them, a...