Matthew 23:37 · WEB
“"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!”
— Matthew 23:37
Era
Life of Jesus (~30 AD)
Emotion
grieving
Type
narrative
Emotional genome
Comfort power
Quotability
Memorability
Crisis relevance
Standalone
rejectionprotectionlament
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