Common English Bible

Matthew 23:35-38 Common English Bible (CEB)

35. Therefore, upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been poured out on the earth, from the blood of that righteous man Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

36. I assure you that all these things will come upon this generation.

37. "Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You who kill the prophets and stone those who were sent to you. How often I wanted to gather your people together, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But you didn’t want that.

38. Look, your house is left to you deserted.