So you are witnesses and you approve of the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.

For this reason also, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and some they will persecute,

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.’

“Now I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.

But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed someone, has the power to throw that person into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!

Or do you think that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse offenders than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?

At that very time some Pharisees approached, saying to Him, “Go away and leave this place, because Herod wants to kill You.”

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her young under her wings, and you were unwilling!

and after they have flogged Him, they will kill Him; and on the third day He will rise.”

But when the vine-growers saw him, they discussed with one another, saying, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him so that the inheritance will be ours.’

And so they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Jesus’ Equality with God

For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Jesus Teaches at the Feast

After these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.

“Did Moses not give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why are you seeking to kill Me?”

The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill You?”

So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is this man not the one whom they are seeking to kill?

So the Jews were saying, “Surely He will not kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’ ?”

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; yet you are seeking to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came so that they would have life, and have it abundantly.

Conspiracy to Kill Jesus

Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council meeting, and they were saying, “What are we doing in regard to the fact that this man is performing many signs?

So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.

They will ban you from the synagogue, yet an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering a service to God.

For, some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about four hundred men joined him. But he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.

You do not intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’