Jerusalem

But the people there refused to welcome Him, because He was heading for Jerusalem.

Jesus took up this question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.

Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?

Then Jesus traveled throughout the towns and villages, teaching as He made His way toward Jerusalem.

Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

While Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.

Then Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything the prophets have written about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

While the people were listening to this, Jesus proceeded to tell them a parable, because He was near Jerusalem and they thought the kingdom of God would appear imminently.

After Jesus had said this, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

And learning that Jesus was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who himself was in Jerusalem at that time.

But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

One of them, named Cleopas, asked Him, “Are You the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in recent days?”

And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, gathered together

and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

And they worshiped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

And this was John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”

“Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well.