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  • Matthew 23:37
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent to her+—how often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings! But you did not want it.+

  • Matthew 23:37
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 37 Ἰερουσαλὴμ Jerusalem Ἰερουσαλήμ, Jerusalem, ἡ the (one) ἀποκτείνουσα killing τοὺς the προφήτας prophets καὶ and λιθοβολοῦσα stoning τοὺς the (ones) ἀπεσταλμένους sent off πρὸς toward αὐτὴν, her, — — ποσάκις how often ἠθέλησα I willed ἐπισυναγαγεῖν to lead together upon τὰ the τέκνα children σου, of you, ὃν which τρόπον manner ὄρνις hen ἐπισυνάγει leads together upon τὰ the νοσσία chicks αὐτῆς of her ὑπὸ under τὰς the πτέρυγας, wings, καὶ and οὐκ not ἠθελήσατε; YOU did will?

  • Matthew 23:37
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the killer of the prophets+ and stoner+ of those sent forth to her,+—how often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks together under her wings!+ But YOU people did not want it.+

  • Matthew 23:37
    The Bible in Living English
    • 37* Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killer of the prophets and stoner of those that are sent to her—how many times I have wished to gather her children as a bird gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

  • Matthew 23:37
    American Standard Version
    • 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

  • Matthew 23:37
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 37 Jerusalem! Jerusalem! That slayeth the prophets And stoneth them that have been sent unto her,—How often would I have gathered thy children, Like as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings,—And ye would not!

  • Matthew 23:37
    King James Version
    • 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2022
    • 23:37 it-1 486, 1088; wp16.6 9; w06 2/1 19; w05 6/15 19-20; w92 1/15 11-12

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 23:37 w85 3/15 12; w77 407; w76 229; g65 6/8 28; w64 120; w63 46; ln 17; w61 52, 716; w53 557; nh 142

  • Matthew
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 23:37

      Insight, Volume 1, pp. 486, 1088

      The Watchtower (Public),

      No. 6 2016, p. 9

      The Watchtower,

      2/1/2006, p. 19

      6/15/2005, pp. 19-20

      1/15/1992, pp. 11-12

      3/15/1985, pp. 12-13

      7/1/1977, p. 407

      4/15/1976, p. 229

      2/15/1964, pp. 119-120

      1/15/1963, p. 46

      12/1/1961, pp. 715-717

      1/15/1961, pp. 51-53

      9/15/1953, pp. 557-558

  • Matthew Study Notes—Chapter 23
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 23:37

      Jerusalem, Jerusalem: According to Lu 13:34, Jesus made a very similar statement when he was in Perea some time earlier. Here, however, Jesus makes this statement on Nisan 11 during the last week of his earthly ministry.​—See App. A7.

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