Luke 11:50

so that the blood of all the prophets that was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

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In The King James Version

That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

In Context

49Because of this also the wisdom of God said, I will send to them prophets and apostles. And some of them they will kill and persecute,

51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I say to you, it will be required of this generation.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:5And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

Numbers 35:33So ye shall not pollute the land in which ye are, for blood, it pollutes the land. And no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Psalms 9:12For he who makes inquiry for blood remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the poor.

Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thy hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights. For LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Revelation 18:20Be glad over her, thou heaven, and the sanctified, and the apostles, and the prophets, because God has decreed your judgment of her.

Matthew Henry on Luke 11:38-54

Woes Denounced on That Generation; The Pharisees and Lawyers Reproved. 37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. 38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. 40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? 41… Read the whole commentary →

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