Verse 5

Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.

Referenced Verses

  • Neh 9:30 : 30 Yet many years did you bear with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
  • Jer 7:25-28 : 25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 26 yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers. 27 You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you. 28 You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
  • Matt 5:12 : 12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
  • Matt 21:35-36 : 35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.
  • Matt 22:6 : 6 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
  • Mark 9:13 : 13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him."
  • Luke 6:22-23 : 22 Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake. 23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.
  • Luke 6:36 : 36 Therefore be merciful, Even as your Father is also merciful.