Luke 11:49

Therefore hath wisdom said: Lo, I will send to them prophets and legates; and some of them they will persecute and slay;

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

48Thus ye testify, that ye acquiesce in the deeds of your fathers; for they slew them, and ye build their sepulchres.

50that from this generation may be required, the blood of all the prophets, which hath been shed since the world was created;

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Cross References

Matthew 22:6and the rest seized his servants, and abused them, and slew them.

Luke 21:16And your parents, and your brothers, and your relatives, and your friends, will deliver you up, and cause some of you to die.

John 16:2For they will eject you from their synagogues; and the hour will come, that whoever shall kill you, will suppose that he presenteth an offering to God.

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

Acts 9:1And Saul was still full of threats and deadly hatred against the disciples of our Lord.

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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