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52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors[a] not persecute?[b] They[c] killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One,[d] whose betrayers and murderers you have now become![e]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:52 tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”
  2. Acts 7:52 sn Which…persecute. The rhetorical question suggests they persecuted them all.
  3. Acts 7:52 tn Grk “And they.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.
  4. Acts 7:52 sn The Righteous One is a reference to Jesus Christ.
  5. Acts 7:52 sn Whose betrayers and murderers you have now become. The harsh critique has OT precedent (1 Kgs 19:10-14; Neh 9:26; 2 Chr 36:16).

52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

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