Acts 7:52
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52 (A)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of (B)the Righteous One, (C)whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
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Matthew 5:12
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12 (A)Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for (B)so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
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2 Chronicles 36:16
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16 (A)But they kept mocking the messengers of God, (B)despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, (C)until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.
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1 Kings 19:10
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10 He said, “I have been very (A)jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, (B)thrown down your altars, and (C)killed your prophets with the sword, (D)and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”
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1 Thessalonians 2:15
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15 (A)who killed both the Lord Jesus and (B)the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and (C)oppose all mankind
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Luke 11:47-51
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47 (A)Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. 48 (B)So you are witnesses and you (C)consent to the deeds of (D)your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. 49 Therefore also (E)the Wisdom of God said, (F)‘I will send them (G)prophets and apostles, (H)some of whom they will (I)kill and persecute,’ 50 so that (J)the blood of all the prophets, shed (K)from the foundation of the world, may be (L)charged against this generation, 51 from the blood of (M)Abel to the blood of (N)Zechariah, who perished between (O)the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be (P)required of this generation.
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Matthew 23:31-37
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31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are (A)sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 (B)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, (C)you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to (D)hell? 34 (E)Therefore (F)I send you (G)prophets and wise men and (H)scribes, (I)some of whom you will kill and crucify, and (J)some you will (K)flog in your synagogues and (L)persecute from town to town, 35 so that on you may come all (M)the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous (N)Abel to the blood of (O)Zechariah the son of Barachiah,[a] whom you murdered between (P)the sanctuary and (Q)the altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, (R)all these things will come upon this generation.
Lament over Jerusalem
37 (S)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that (T)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have (U)gathered (V)your children together (W)as a hen gathers her brood (X)under her wings, and (Y)you were not willing!
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- Matthew 23:35 Some manuscripts omit the son of Barachiah
Jeremiah 2:30
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30 In vain have I (A)struck your children;
they took no correction;
(B)your own sword devoured your prophets
like a ravening lion.
1 Samuel 8:7-8
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7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, (A)for they have not rejected you, (B)but they have rejected me from being king over them. 8 According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.
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Revelation 19:10
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10 Then (A)I fell down at his feet to worship him, (B)but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to (C)the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
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1 John 2:1
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Christ Our Advocate
2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, (A)we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
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Acts 5:28-30
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28 saying, (A)“We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you (B)intend to bring this man's blood upon us.” 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, (C)“We must obey God rather than men. 30 (D)The God of our fathers (E)raised Jesus, (F)whom you killed by hanging him on (G)a tree.
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Revelation 3:7
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To the Church in Philadelphia
7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of (A)the holy one, (B)the true one, (C)who has the key of David, (D)who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
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1 Peter 1:11
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11 inquiring (A)what person or time[a] (B)the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating (C)when he predicted (D)the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.
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- 1 Peter 1:11 Or what time or circumstances
Acts 4:10
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10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that (A)by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, (B)whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well.
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Acts 3:24
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24 And (A)all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days.
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Acts 3:18
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18 But what God (A)foretold (B)by the mouth of all the prophets, that (C)his Christ would (D)suffer, he thus fulfilled.
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Luke 13:33-34
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33 Nevertheless, (A)I (B)must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that (C)a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’ 34 (D)O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that (E)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! (F)How often would I have (G)gathered (H)your children together (I)as a hen gathers her brood (J)under her wings, and (K)you were not willing!
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Matthew 21:35-41
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35 (A)And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and (B)stoned another. 36 (C)Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, (D)‘This is the heir. Come, (E)let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 39 And they took him and (F)threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 (G)When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 They said to him, (H)“He will put those wretches to a miserable death and (I)let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”
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Zechariah 9:9
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The Coming King of Zion
9 (A)Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
(B)Behold, (C)your king is coming to you;
righteous and having salvation is he,
(D)humble and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Jeremiah 26:23
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23 and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, (A)who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
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