O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.First I want to address what might be an alleged contradiction in that these two Gospels have Jesus say this at different times in different places. The basis for the Q Hypothesis are sayings of Jesus that appear in Matthew and Luke but not Mark, where often the context is different.
It's actually normal that Jesus would have repeated himself. This quote Jesus says earlier in Galilee according to Luke but later in Jerusalem in Matthew. Naturally those in Jerusalem aren't guaranteed to have heard what he said in Galilee.
Now what really interests me is how this passage implies at least His Prexistence and probably His Divinity and yet it is overlooked when that issue is discussed. Generally John's Gospel is where the theology of who Jesus is is gone into, while the Synoptics seem to just focus on Him as the Son of God without much concern for the implications of what that means.
But this quote is about Jesus reminiscing what He's been doing, it pretty much only makes sense if He is claiming to be YHWH.
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