"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, about a Sabbath Day's journey distant.

(for the word Hagar stands for Mt. Sinai in Arabia and represents the present Jerusalem who with her children is in bondage.)

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

With earnest entreaty they craved of me the privilege of a share in ministering to the saints in Jerusalem.

It is indeed unnecessary for me to write you in regard to the ministration to the saints at Jerusalem,

or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter, and spent two weeks with him.

Fourteen years later I went up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me