Luke 11:49

For this reason also, God's wisdom said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and they will persecute and kill some of them.'

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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

48So you are witnesses and you consent to the works of your ancestors, for they indeed killed them and you build their tombs.

50This generation, then, will be held responsible for all the blood of the prophets shed since the world began,

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Cross References

Proverbs 8:1Does not Wisdom call out? 1 Does not Understanding raise her voice? 1

Matthew 22:6The others seized the king's servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.

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

John 16:2They will throw you out of the synagogues. But the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering a service to God.

Acts 7:57At this the council members covered their ears, and shouting out with a loud voice, altogether they rushed at him.

Acts 9:1But Saul, still speaking threats even of murder 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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