Luke 11:49

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

English Majority Text (NT)

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

48Consequently, you bear witness to and approve of the deeds of your fathers; because they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.

50so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

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Cross References

Matthew 22:6And the rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

Luke 21:16You will be betrayed even by parents and relatives, friends and brothers; and they will put some of you to death.

John 16:2They will excommunicate you; but the time is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering God a service.

Acts 7:57Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one purpose;

Acts 9:1Then Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high 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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