Luke 11:49

"For this reason also said the Wisdom of God. ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and some they will persecute;

Montgomery 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

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

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

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Cross References

Matthew 22:6"while the rest seized his slaves and maltreated and murdered them.

Luke 21:16"You will be betrayed even by parents or brothers and kinsfolk, and friends.

John 16:2"They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God’s service.

Acts 7:57With a loud outcry they stopped their ears, and rushed upon Stephen in a body,

Acts 9:1Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats 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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