Acts 7:52

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

Which of

Which shewed

Acts 3:18

1 Peter 1:11

Revelation 19:10

The just one

Revelation 3:7

Of whom

General references

Bible References

Which of

And the LORD said to Samuel, "Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.

He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."

Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD. These testified against them, but they would not pay attention.

But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

"Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the LORD.

Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the LORD sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears."

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.

Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.'

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind

Which shewed

But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.

inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.

Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God." For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

The just one

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

And he said, 'The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth;

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

Of whom

this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead--by him this man is standing before you well.

saying, "We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us."

General references

According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.

The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.

Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.

Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

As I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us.'

The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;