1. A confidence in God’s timetable
31 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” 32 And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course. 33 Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’ Luke 13:31-33 (ESV)
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
John 4:34 (ESV)
30 he said “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. John 19:30 (ESV)
2. A lament for God’s people
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it!
Luke 13:34 (ESV)
26 “. . . They were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets…” Nehemiah 9:26 (ESV)
3. A picture of God’s compassion
How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! Luke 13:34 (ESV)
10 “He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 11 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,
Deuteronomy 32:10–11 (ESV)
4. A fulfillment of God’s salvation
35 Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’” Luke 13:35 (ESV)
22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. 24 This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, we pray, give us success! 26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We bless you from the house of the LORD. Psalm 118:22-26 (ESV)
38 . . . “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! . . . Luke 19:38 (ESV)
10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. Zechariah 12:10 (ESV)