Luke 11:49

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

In Context

48Therefore you attest and approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchers.

50that the blood of all the prophets, which has been shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

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Cross References

Matthew 22:6And the rest laid hold of his servants, and abused them, and killed them.

Luke 21:16But you will be delivered up by parents and brothers and relatives and friends; and some of you they will put to death;

John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the time is coming, when he that kills you, will think that he is offering service to God.

Acts 7:57And they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and, with one consent, rushed upon him,

Acts 9:1And Saul, still breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest,

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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