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Luke 13:34 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused! "

Luke 13:34

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32 He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.

33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’

34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

35 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

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Matthew 23:37

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"Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”"

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"I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”"

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Judith 11:19

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"And I will lead you through the midst of Judea, until you come to Jerusalem. I will set your throne in the midst of it. You will drive them as sheep that have no shepherd, and a dog will not so much as open his mouth before you; for these things were told me according to my foreknowledge, and were declared to me, and I was sent to tell you.”"

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Lamentations 1:8

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"Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs and turns backward."

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Luke 13:1

"Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices."

Luke 13:2

"Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?"

Luke 13:3

"I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way."

Luke 13:4

"Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?"

Luke 13:5

"I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”"

Luke 13:6

"He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none."

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