1 Thessalonians 2:15

The Thessalonians' Response To Paul's Message

¹⁴ For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you too have suffered the same sort of ill-treatment at the hands of your fellow-countrymen as they did at the hands of the Jews, ¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; and who continue to displease God and show themselves in opposition to all mankind, ¹⁶ by trying to keep us from speaking to the heathen, so that they may be saved, so as always to fill to the brim the cup of their sins. But at last God's wrath has come upon them.

Old Testament

Pleasing to God

Put to Death

O God

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Jesus

Thessalonica

Matthew 5:12

Keep on rejoicing and leaping for ecstasy, for your reward will be rich in heaven; for this is the way they persecuted the prophets who lived before you.

Acts 2:23

this very Jesus, I say, after He was betrayed, in accordance with the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you had wicked men kill by nailing Him to a cross;

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your forefathers fail to persecute? They killed the prophets who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered Him,

Matthew 23:31-35

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

Matthew 23:37

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city that has kept on murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

Matthew 27:25

And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"

Luke 11:48-53

So you testify to what your forefathers did and approve it, because they killed them and you build monuments for them.

Luke 13:33-34

But I must continue on my way, for it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.'

Matthew 21:35-39

But the tenants took his slaves and beat the first one, killed the second, and stoned the third.

Luke 24:20

and how the high priests and leading men turned Him over to be sentenced to death, and had Him crucified.

Acts 3:15

and you killed the Prince of life, but God raised Him from the dead, to which fact we are witnesses.

Acts 4:10

you and all the people of Israel must know that it is by the authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead -- yes, I repeat it, it is by His authority that this man stands here before you well.

Acts 5:30

The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life after you had hanged Him on a cross and killed Him.

Acts 12:3

and when he saw that this was agreeable to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too -- it was at the time of the feast of Unleavened Bread.

Acts 22:18-21

and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste and at once get out of Jerusalem, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'

1 Corinthians 10:5

still with the most of them God was not at all satisfied, for He allowed them to be laid low in the desert.