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Repeat his lamentation concerning Jerusalem’s rejection of him.
“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 xxiii, 37]; [Luke xiii, 34].)
Where was he when he uttered this lamentation?
Matthew: During his visit at Jerusalem.
Luke: In Galilee before he went to Jerusalem.
Not only are these writers at variance with each other as to the time and place of utterance, but the lamentation itself, which declares that he had made repeated efforts to convert Jerusalem, is at variance with both of them. For according to Matthew he had just arrived on his first visit to Jerusalem, while according to Luke he had never yet, during his ministry, visited Jerusalem.