37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’” (Matthew 23)
This concluding paragraph of this chapter shows that Jesus was more sad than mad when He gave His "woes" in reference to the Pharisees. He saw that the people were being led astray like chickens wiith their heads cut off. They were not receiving their Messiah; they were not seeing; they were not hearing; they were joining right in and rejecting God's Messenger once again. Jesus would return once again, at His triumphal entry, when they cried out "Blessed is He...", and will yet return again. Will He find us ready to receive Him?
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