Matthew 23:31

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So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

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  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did. 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered him—
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 They killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and they drove us out. They do not please God and are hostile to everyone. 16 They forbid us to speak to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way, they constantly fill up the measure of their sins. But the wrath of God has come upon them fully.
  • Josh 24:22 : 22 Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD." And they said, "We are witnesses."
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your lips testify against you.
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 But God will shoot them with an arrow; suddenly, they will be struck down.
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 He said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?'

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  • Matt 23:28-30
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    82%

    28So too, on the outside you appear righteous to people, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

    29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,

    30and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

  • Luke 11:47-51
    5 verses
    81%

    47Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, yet it was your ancestors who killed them.

    48So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

    49Because of this, the wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some they will kill, and others they will persecute.'

    50So that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation—

    51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.

  • Matt 23:32-38
    7 verses
    81%

    32Fill up, then, the measure of your forefathers' sins!

    33You serpents, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell?

    34Therefore, look, I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,

    35so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

    36Truly, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

    37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

    38Look, your house is left to you desolate.

  • Acts 7:51-52
    2 verses
    78%

    51You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.

    52Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered him—

  • Luke 24:48
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    48You are witnesses of these things.

  • Matt 10:21
    71%

    21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

  • Acts 3:15
    71%

    15You killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses of this.

  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    15They killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and they drove us out. They do not please God and are hostile to everyone.

  • Mark 13:12
    70%

    12Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

  • Acts 13:40
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    40So beware that what is spoken of in the prophets does not come upon you:

  • Luke 21:16
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    16You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and some of you will be put to death.

  • Luke 6:23
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    23Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For behold, your reward is great in heaven, for that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.

  • Luke 13:34
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    34'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.

  • John 8:37-41
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    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place in you.

    38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."

    39They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

    40But now you are trying to kill me—a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

    41You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God."

  • Luke 22:71
    69%

    71They said, 'Why do we need any more testimony? We have heard it from his own lips.'

  • Acts 3:24-25
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    24Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have foretold these days.

    25You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham: 'Through your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.'

  • Matt 15:7
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    7You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, saying,

  • Jer 2:30
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    30In vain I have struck your children; they accepted no discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion.

  • Jas 5:6
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    6You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, who does not resist you.

  • Zech 1:5
    68%

    5Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?

  • Luke 6:26
    68%

    26Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

  • Lam 4:13
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    13It happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

  • Luke 3:8
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    8Produce fruit in keeping with repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

  • Luke 21:13
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    13This will result in an opportunity for you to bear witness.

  • Matt 21:38-39
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    38But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance!'

    39So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

  • Acts 13:27
    68%

    27The people living in Jerusalem and their rulers, not recognizing Him or the words of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning Him.

  • Matt 5:21
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    21You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder,’ and whoever murders will be subject to judgment.

  • Job 15:6
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    6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your lips testify against you.

  • Isa 14:21
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    21Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the iniquity of their fathers. Let them not rise to possess the land or fill the face of the earth with cities.

  • Matt 5:12
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    12Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

  • Jer 26:15
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    15But you should certainly know that if you put me to death, you are bringing innocent blood upon yourselves, this city, and its inhabitants, for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.