Matthew 23
The Lord takes up the leaders and shows their Pharisaical wickedness and character. Then He pours out eight woes on them. This chapter closes His public ministry with this solemn Judgment on the leaders of the nation (Ezek. 34:1-3).
Then He opens His heart to the nation, desiring that their children may see the marvelous grace to that nation when He comes again to "turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers." Mal. 4:6.
He laments, “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! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see Me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord."
In Psa. 91:4 we read, "He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust." This verse answers to the Lord's desire as the true shepherd, expressed in His lament over Jerusalem.