Acts 13:41

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

Ye despisers

Luke 16:14

Luke 23:35

Hebrews 10:28

For

General references

Matthew 24:39

Mark 12:11

Bible References

Ye despisers

Then the Pharisees also, who were dear lovers of money, heard all these things, and they sneered at him.

And the people stood looking on. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if this fellow is the Messiah, the elect of God.

Any man who treated the law of Moses with neglect, was put to death, without mercy, on the deposition of two or three witnesses:

For

For so hath the Lord enjoined us, "I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou mightest be for salvation unto the extremity of the earth."

But it shall come to pass, that every soul which will not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly exterminated from amidst the people."

for we have heard him affirm, that Jesus the Nazarean, even he, will destroy this place, and change the accustomed ordinances which Moses delivered to us.

And he said to me, Go: for I will send thee forth to the Gentiles afar off.

And Jesus hearing him, marvelled, and said to those who were following, Verily I say unto you, not even in Israel have I found so great faith.

They say unto him, He will dreadfully destroy those wicked wretches, and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, who will render him the fruits in their seasons.

Then the king, when he heard it, was incensed: and sending out his armies, destroyed these murderers, and burnt down their city.

Therefore, behold, I am sending to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye shall kill, and crucify; and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

saying, Oh that thou hadst known, even in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

But when ye see Jerusalem, encircled with armies, then know that the desolation of it approaches.

What then is the result? Israel hath not obtained that which it seeketh; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded,

that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote unto you before briefly;

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, to fill up the measure of their iniquities always: but wrath is coming upon them to the extremity.

For now is the time when judgment is commencing at the house of God; and if it begin with us, what will be the end of those who obey not the gospel of God?

General references

and they knew it not till the deluge came, and swept them all away; such also shall the coming of the Son of man be.

this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes."