Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

Persecuted us

Bible References

Killed

Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in the heavens; for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 21:35
And the husbandmen took his slaves and beat one and killed another and stoned another.
Matthew 23:31
Therefore ye are witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
Matthew 27:25
Then all the people answered and said, His blood be on us and on our children.
Luke 11:48
Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
Luke 13:33
Nevertheless I must walk today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
Acts 2:23
him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain,
Acts 3:15
and killed the Author of life, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
Acts 4:10
be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him does this man stand here before you whole.
Acts 5:30
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree.
Acts 7:52
Who of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? and they have slain those who announced before the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now been the betrayers and murderers,

Persecuted us

Amos 7:12
And Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and eat thy bread there, and prophesy there:
Acts 22:18
and saw him saying unto me, Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

Please

Acts 12:3
And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
1 Corinthians 10:5
But with many of them God was not pleased; therefore, they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Contrary

Esther 3:8
And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws are different from all other people; neither do they observe the king's laws: therefore, it is not profitable for the king to allow them to remain.
Luke 11:52
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and those that were entering in, ye hindered.

General references

Proverbs 25:26
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring.
Jeremiah 51:24
And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, said the LORD.
Ezekiel 11:8
Ye have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword upon you, said the Lord GOD.
Matthew 21:35
And the husbandmen took his slaves and beat one and killed another and stoned another.
Luke 3:20
added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
Luke 19:27
Moreover, those enemies of mine, who were unwilling that I should reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.
John 16:9
of sin, because they do not believe in me;
Acts 14:2
But the disobedient Jews stirred up the Gentiles and corrupted their desire against the brethren.