But he said, ‘No; because as you pull out the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.

For where two or three are gathered in My name [meeting together as My followers], I am there among them.”

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who murders the prophets and stones [to death] those [messengers] who are sent to her [by God]! How often I wanted to gather your children together [around Me], as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet which was lowered into the sea, and gathered fish of every kind,

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the [elegant home of the Jewish] high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,