Matthew 23:37–39
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to the hinge of Matthew's gospel. For twenty-three chapters, the Lord Jesus has been teaching, healing, confronting, and offering the kingdom to the covenant people of Israel. He has presented His credentials as their Messiah with irrefutable clarity. There are blessings for obedience and curses for rebellion. And after a blistering series of woes pronounced upon the corrupt leadership of Jerusalem, the Lord's public ministry to Israel concludes here with a lament. It is a cry of rejected love, a pronouncement of just judgment, and a prophecy of future restoration. This is not the detached statement of a philosopher, nor is it the angry rant of a frustrated reformer. This is the heartbroken cry of a husband over an adulterous wife, of a father over a rebellious son. This is the cry of Yahweh over His chosen city.