March On Jerusalem
March 16, 2025
I must walk on today, tomorrow, and the next day, for it cannot be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Jerusalem…
–Jesus (Luke 13:33–34)
Go tell that fox, “Look, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I reach my goal.” Yet I must walk on today, tomorrow, and the next day, for it cannot be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, Jerusalem…
–Luke 13:32–34
See, your house is left to you. And I tell you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”
–Luke 13:35
How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing.
–Luke 13:34
Jesus appears to be referring to a passage in 2 Esdras, an apocalyptic book in the Apocrypha
Thus says the Almighty LORD…
I was to you as a father to sons,
As a mother to daughters,
As a hen gathering her brood under her wings.
–2 Esdras 1:28
And I saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
–Revelation 21:2