Acts 1:20
For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.
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- Ps 69:25 : 25 Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents.
- Ps 109:8-9 : 8 Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority. 9 Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow. 10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends. 11 Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work. 12 Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead. 13 Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory. 14 Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness. 15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.
- Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment. 4 And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.
- Luke 20:42 : 42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Take your seat at my right hand,
- Luke 24:44 : 44 And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.
- Acts 1:25 : 25 To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.
- Acts 13:33 : 33 Which God has now put into effect for our children, by sending Jesus; as it says in the second Psalm, You are my Son; this day I have given you being.
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- Ps 109:6-105 verses77%
6 Put an evil man over him; and let one be placed at his right hand to say evil of him.
7 When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.
8 Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.
9 Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.
10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
- Acts 1:25-262 verses74%
25 To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.
26 And they put it to the decision of chance, and the decision was given for Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven Apostles.
- Acts 1:16-194 verses73%
16 My brothers, the word of God had to be put into effect, which the Holy Spirit had said before, by the mouth of David, about Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus,
17 For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work.
18 (Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.
19 And this came to the knowledge of all those who were living in Jerusalem, so that the field was named in their language, Akel-dama, or, The field of blood.)
- Acts 1:21-222 verses72%
21 For this reason, of the men who have been with us all the time, while the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
22 Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.
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25 Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents.
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22 And they gave him a hearing as far as this word; then with loud voices they said, Away with this man from the earth; it is not right for him to be living.
- Luke 20:15-173 verses69%
15 And driving him out of the garden they put him to death. Now what will the lord do to these workmen?
16 He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.
17 But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?
- Mark 12:8-103 verses68%
8 And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.
9 What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others.
10 Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building:
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14 For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.
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29 And they got up and took him out of the town to the edge of the mountain on which their town was, so that they might send him down to his death.
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42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Take your seat at my right hand,
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34 For David has not gone up into heaven, but says, himself, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand,
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39 And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death.
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11 Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.
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11 He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building.
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48 If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.
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28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.
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14 And here he has authority from the chief priests to make prisoners all who give worship to your name.
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58 Driving him out of the town and stoning him: and the witnesses put their clothing at the feet of a young man named Saul.
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10 And they gave them for the potter's field, as I had word from the Lord.
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23 Him, when he was given up, by the decision and knowledge of God, you put to death on the cross, by the hands of evil men:
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35 Because he says in another Psalm, You will not let your Holy One see destruction.
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20 But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.
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1 And Saul gave approval to his death. Now at that time a violent attack was started against the church in Jerusalem; and all but the Apostles went away into all parts of Judaea and Samaria.
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9 And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:
- Acts 20:28-292 verses66%
28 Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.
29 I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock;
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11 And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide.
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16 Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.
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27 For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,
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41 They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.
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36 For a great mass of people came after them, crying out, Away with him!
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43 For this reason I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.
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15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
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19 And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.
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20 And when they had made sport of him, they took the purple robe off him and put his clothing on him. And they took him out to put him to death on the cross.
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15 And this is in agreement with the words of the prophets, as it is said,