Jesus’ Lamentation over Jerusalem

37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem!(A) She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks[a] under her wings, yet you were not willing!(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:37 Or as a mother bird gathers her young

The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem(A) were flocking to him, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan(B) River as they confessed(C) their sins.(D)

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He went into all the vicinity of the Jordan,(A) preaching a baptism of repentance[a] for the forgiveness of sins,

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 3:3 Or baptism based on repentance

22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin.[a](A) Now they have no excuse for their sin.

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Footnotes

  1. John 15:22 To have sin is an idiom that refers to guilt caused by sin.

18 And many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing their practices,

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