Luke 11:50

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;

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  • Gen 9:5-6 : 5 And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man. 6 Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
  • Num 35:33 : 33 So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.
  • Isa 26:21 : 21 For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.
  • Jer 7:29 : 29 Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.
  • Jer 51:56 : 56 For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.
  • Rev 18:20-24 : 20 Be glad over her, heaven, and you saints, and Apostles, and prophets; because she has been judged by God on your account. 21 And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all. 22 And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you; 23 And never again will the shining of lights be seen in you; and the voice of the newly-married man and the bride will never again be sounding in you: for your traders were the lords of the earth, and by your evil powers were all the nations turned out of the right way. 24 And in her was seen the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been put to death on the earth.

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  • Luke 11:51
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    51 From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who was put to death between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I say to you, It will come on this generation.

  • Matt 23:34-37
    4 verses
    76%

    34 For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

    35 So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.

    36 Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.

    37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

  • Luke 11:47-49
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    76%

    47 A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.

    48 So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.

    49 For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;

  • Matt 23:30-32
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    69%

    30 If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.

    31 So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

    32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.

  • Rev 18:24
    69%

    24 And in her was seen the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been put to death on the earth.

  • Lam 4:13
    68%

    13 It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

  • Acts 7:52
    68%

    52 Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

  • Rev 16:6
    68%

    6 For they made the blood of saints and prophets come out like a stream, and blood have you given them for drink; which is their right reward.

  • Matt 11:13
    67%

    13 For all the prophets and the law were in force till John.

  • Gen 9:5-6
    2 verses
    66%

    5 And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.

    6 Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

  • Matt 27:25
    66%

    25 And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

  • Luke 17:25
    65%

    25 But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.

  • Ps 79:3
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    3 Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

  • Acts 3:23-24
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    65%

    23 And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people.

    24 And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after, every one of them, gave word of these days.

  • Heb 9:20
    65%

    20 Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.

  • Luke 1:70
    64%

    70 (As he said, by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the earliest times,)

  • Deut 19:10
    64%

    10 So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

  • Luke 11:29-30
    2 verses
    64%

    29 And when a great number of people came together to him, he said, This generation is an evil generation: it is looking for a sign and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah.

    30 For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of man be to this generation.

  • Ezek 24:7-8
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    7 For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;

    8 In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered.

  • Luke 21:32
    64%

    32 Truly I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all things are complete.

  • Acts 13:40
    64%

    40 So take care that these words of the prophets do not come true for you;

  • Mic 3:10
    64%

    10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

  • Lev 17:11
    64%

    11 For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.

  • Matt 27:8
    64%

    8 For this cause that field was named, The field of blood, to this day.

  • Heb 9:18
    64%

    18 So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.

  • 2 Kgs 24:4
    63%

    4 And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

  • Acts 3:21
    63%

    21 Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.

  • Ezek 35:6
    63%

    6 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.

  • Ezek 3:20
    63%

    20 Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.

  • Mark 12:8
    63%

    8 And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.

  • Isa 14:21
    63%

    21 Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

  • Matt 21:39
    63%

    39 And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death.

  • 2 Sam 4:11
    63%

    11 How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?

  • Deut 18:19
    63%

    19 And whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be responsible to me.

  • Luke 20:15
    63%

    15 And driving him out of the garden they put him to death. Now what will the lord do to these workmen?

  • Gen 4:10
    63%

    10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

  • Mark 13:30
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    30 Truly, I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete.

  • John 11:53
    63%

    53 And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death.