Acts 7:52

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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

1 Peter 1:11

Revelation 19:10

The just one

Of whom

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Which of

rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.

So you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those who killed the prophets!

Woe to you! you build tombs for the prophets whom your own fathers killed:

But I must journey on, to-day, to-morrow, and the next day; it would never do for a prophet to perish except in Jerusalem!

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men

Which shewed

the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come;

Then I fell before his feet to worship him; but he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers, who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God" (for the testimony borne by Jesus is the breath of all prophecy).

The just one

but you repudiated the Holy and Just One; the boon you asked was a murderer,

Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, to see the Just One, and to hear him speak with his own lips.

My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just;

Then to the angel of the church at Philadelphia write thus: ??These are the words of the true Holy One, who holds the key of David, who opens and none shall shut, who shuts and none shall open.

Of whom

this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder;

and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness.

you and the people of Israel must all understand that he stands before you strong and well, thanks to the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead.

"We strictly forbade you to teach about this Name, did we not? And here you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine! You want to make us responsible for this man's death!"

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but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Now his people hated him and sent envoys after him to say, 'We object to him having royal power over us.'

The Jews again caught up stones to stone him.

of sin, because they do not believe in me;