Jesus Love for Jerusalem

From the Mount of Olives there is a magnificent panoramic view of Jerusalem.  As Jesus came to that turn in the road, he paused and wept over his city.

The lament of Jesus for Jerusalem expressed the sadness of things gone wrong, the futility of a message misunderstood, the poignant tragedy of rejected love.  In an expression of despair, Jesus admitted His lack of success in avoiding a catastrophe -- within thirty-five years or so, Jerusalem would be destroyed.   The image used to illustrate such frustration is that of a mother hen seeking desperately, in the presence of danger, to draw her chicks to safety under her wings.

In this instance Jesus spoke, not so much as the judge of all people but as the lover of women and men.  So we find him standing alone while the others have begun to walk away.  There is nothing which hurts so much as to go to someone and offer care and concern and to have that offer spurned.

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