"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! 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!'" - Lk 13, 34-35
How the Lord longs to bring his beloved ones home.
Again, I get just a taste of his longing for us.
We say (or sing), "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" But do we mean it, and as a result, do we see him?
Another earlier verse caught my attention, and caused me to wonder how thoroughly I have read this gospel in the past:
At that very hour some Pharisees came, and said to him, "Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you." - Lk 13, 31
We know about Nicodemus, of course, but apparently he wasn't the only of the Pharisees who didn't have it out for Jesus.
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