Luke 11:50

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 9:5-6 : 5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man. 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
  • Num 35:33 : 33 "'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.
  • Ps 9:12 : 12 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.
  • Isa 26:21 : 21 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
  • Jer 7:29 : 29 Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
  • Jer 51:56 : 56 for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.
  • Rev 18:20-24 : 20 "Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her." 21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all. 22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you. 23 The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived. 24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain 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 perished between the altar and the sanctuary.' Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

  • Matt 23:34-37
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    34 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

    35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

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

    37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

  • Luke 11:47-49
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    47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

    48 So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

    49 Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

  • Matt 23:30-32
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    30 and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'

    31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

    32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

  • Rev 18:24
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    24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth."

  • Lam 4:13
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    13 [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

  • Acts 7:52
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    52 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

  • Rev 16:6
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    6 For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."

  • Matt 11:13
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    13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

  • Gen 9:5-6
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    5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

    6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

  • Matt 27:25
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    25 All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"

  • Luke 17:25
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    25 But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

  • Ps 79:3
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    3 Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

  • Acts 3:23-24
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    23 It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

    24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

  • Heb 9:20
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    20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."

  • Luke 1:70
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    70 (as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),

  • Deut 19:10
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    10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

  • Luke 11:29-30
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    29 When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

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

  • Ezek 24:7-8
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    7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

    8 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.

  • Luke 21:32
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    32 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished.

  • Acts 13:40
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    40 Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:

  • Mic 3:10
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    10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • Lev 17:11
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    11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

  • Matt 27:8
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    8 Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day.

  • Heb 9:18
    64%

    18 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

  • 2 Kgs 24:4
    63%

    4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.

  • Acts 3:21
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    21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

  • Ezek 35:6
    63%

    6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

  • Ezek 3:20
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    20 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

  • Mark 12:8
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    8 They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

  • Isa 14:21
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    21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

  • Matt 21:39
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    39 So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

  • 2 Sam 4:11
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    11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"

  • Deut 18:19
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    19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

  • Luke 20:15
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    15 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

  • Gen 4:10
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    10 Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

  • Mark 13:30
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    30 Most certainly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen.

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    53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.