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 unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee, for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them.

And he replied, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of the hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left, and they seek me to take my life.

Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again unto the LORD, and they testified against them, but they would not give ear.

But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his words and misused his prophets until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Nevertheless, they were contentious and rebelled against thee and cast thy law behind their backs and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great abominations.

I have smitten your children in vain; they have received no correction; your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were at the gate of Benjamin on the high place, which is in the house of the LORD.

But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and upon its inhabitants; for of a truth the LORD has sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

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

And the husbandmen took his slaves and beat one and killed another and stoned another.

Therefore ye are witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Nevertheless I must walk today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

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

Which shewed

But God has thus fulfilled those things which he had showed in advance by the mouth of all his prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

searching when and in what point of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, which announced beforehand the afflictions that were to come upon the Christ, and the glory that should follow them.

And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant and with thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus; worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

The just one

But ye denied the Holy One and the Just and desired a murderer to be granted unto you

And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen thee that thou should know his will and see that Just One and should hear the voice of his mouth.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout with joy, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy King shall come unto thee: just, and a saviour; humble, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass.

My little children, I write these things unto you, that ye sin not; and if anyone has sinned, we have an Advocate before the Father, Jesus, the righteous Christ;

And to the angel of the congregation in Philadelphia write; These things, saith he that is Holy and True, he who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts and shuts, and no one opens;

Of whom

him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain,

and killed the Author of life, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

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.

saying, Did we not strictly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.

General references

According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, with which they have forsaken me and served other gods, so they also do unto thee.

And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not hearken.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedly.

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring.

Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

As I live, said the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister has never done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

And the husbandmen took his slaves and beat one and killed another and stoned another.

But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

of sin, because they do not believe in me;