Luke 13:31-35

Lament over Jerusalem

31 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, "Get away from ¹here, for ²Herod wants to kill you."

32 And he said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day ³I finish my course.

33 Nevertheless, ⁴I ⁵must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that ⁶a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.'

34 ⁷O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that ⁸kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! ⁹How often would I have ¹⁰gathered ¹¹your children together ¹²as a hen gathers her brood ¹³under her wings, and ¹⁴you would not!

35 Behold, ¹⁵your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ¹⁶'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

Cross References

• 1. [Matthew 19:1; Mark 10:1]
• 2. See Luke 3:1
• 3. [See Hebrews 2:10; Hebrews 5:9; Hebrews 7:28]
• 4. [John 11:9]
• 5. Acts 3:21; Acts 17:3
• 6. See Matthew 21:11
• 7. For ver. 34, 35, see Matthew 23:37-39; [Luke 19:41-44]
• 8. See Matthew 21:35
• 9. [Matthew 26:55]
• 10. [Psalms 147:2; Proverbs 1:24]
• 11. Luke 23:28
• 12. [Deuteronomy 32:11, 12]
• 13. Ruth 2:12
• 14. John 5:40
• 15. [Isaiah 64:11; Jeremiah 12:7; Jeremiah 22:5]
• 16. Luke 19:38; Cited from Psalms 118:26