Read Luke 13:31-35

JESUS GRIEVES OVER JERUSALEM
The Pharisees weren’t interested in protecting Jesus from danger. They were trying to trap Him themselves. The Pharisees urged Jesus to leave because they wanted to stop Him from going to Jerusalem, not because they feared Herod. But Jesus’ life, work, and death were not to be determined by Herod or the Pharisees. His life was planned and directed by God Himself, and His mission would unfold in God’s time and according to God’s plan.
Why was Jesus focusing on Jerusalem? Jerusalem, the city of God, symbolized the entire nation. It was Israel’s largest city, the nation’s spiritual and political capital, and Jews from around the known world visited it frequently. But Jerusalem had a history of rejecting God’s prophets, and it would reject the Messiah, just as it had rejected His forerunners.