Acts 13:41

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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

Now the Pharisees who were lovers of money had been listening to all this, and they began to ridicule Him.

Meanwhile, the people stood looking on. Even the members of the council were scoffing at Him and saying, "He saved others, let Him now save Himself, if He really is the Christ of God, His Chosen One!"

Anyone who breaks the law of Moses pays the death penalty without any show of pity, on the evidence of two or three witnesses only.

For

For here are the orders that the Lord has given us: 'I have made you a light to the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth.'"

The result will be, that any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

for we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will tear this place down, and change the customs which Moses handed down to us."

Then He said to me, 'Go, because I am to send you out and far away among the heathen.'"

When Jesus heard it, He was astounded, and said to His followers, "I solemnly say to you, I have not found, in a single case among the Jews, so great faith as this.

They answered, "In vengeance he will put the scoundrels to death, and rent the vineyard to other tenants who will promptly pay him the rent."

Then the king was enraged, and sent his soldiers to put those murderers to death and burned their city.

Therefore, I am going to send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill -- even crucify -- and some you will flog in your synagogues and chase from city to city,

and said: "If today you yourself had only known the conditions of peace! But now they are hidden from you.

"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, then understand that her devastation is near.

What are we then to conclude? Israel has failed to obtain what it is still in search for, but His chosen ones have obtained it. The rest have become insensible to it,

and how by revelation the secret was made known to me, as I have briefly written before.

the open secret, covered up from the people of former ages and generations, but now uncovered to God's people,

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.

Because the time has come for judgment to begin at the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will the end be of those who are rejecting God's good news?

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and knew nothing about it until the Flood came and swept them all away, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

This is the work of the Lord, and seems wonderful to us'?"