³⁰ But the Pharisees and ^[a]lawyers rejected ^(A)the will of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.

Jesus Laments over Jerusalem^(A)

^34 (B)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

³⁵ Then one of them, ^(A)a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,

Marks of the Ministry

6 We then, as ^(A)workers together with Him also ^(B)plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

²¹ But to Israel he says:

²⁷ For I have not ^[a]shunned to declare to you ^(A)the whole counsel of God.

^11 (A)In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to ^(B)the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

²¹ I do not set aside the grace of God; for ^(A)if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died ^[a]in vain.”