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

Acts 3:18

1 Peter 1:11

Revelation 19:10

The just one

Of whom

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Bible References

Which of

Be glad and rejoice, because your reward in Heaven will be great; for so men persecuted the Prophets who lived before you.

But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

By doing this you are furnishing evidence against yourselves that you are true children of the men who murdered the Prophets.

Alas for you! You build the monuments of the Prophets whom your ancestors killed.

But to-day and to-morrow and the day after I must go on my way, because it cannot be that a Prophet should meet his end outside Jerusalem.

The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and persecuted us also. They do not try to please God, and they are enemies to all mankind,

Which shewed

But it was in this way that God fulfilled all that he had long ago foretold, as to the sufferings of his Christ, by the lips of all the Prophets.

as they strove to discern what that time could be, to which the Spirit of Christ within them was pointing, when foretelling the sufferings that would befall Christ, and the glories that would follow.

I prostrated myself at the feet of him who spoke to worship him, but he said to me- - 'Forbear; I am your fellow-servant, and the fellow-servant of your Brothers who bear their testimony to Jesus. Worship God. For to bear testimony to Jesus needs the inspiration of the Prophets.'

The just one

You, I say, disowned the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for the release of a murderer!

Then he said 'The God of our ancestors has appointed you to learn his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from his lips;

My children, I am writing to you to keep you from sinning; but if any one should sin, we have one who can plead for us with the Father--Jesus Christ, the Righteous--

To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write:-- "These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds 'the Key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one opens':--

Of whom

He, I say, in accordance with God's definite plan and with his previous knowledge, was betrayed, and you, by the hands of lawless men, nailed him to a cross and put him to death.

The very Guide to Life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead--and of that we are ourselves witnesses.

Let me tell you all and all the people of Israel, that it is by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead--it is, I say, by his Name that this man stands here before you lame no longer.

"We gave you strict orders," he said, "not to teach in this Name. Yet you have actually flooded Jerusalem with your teaching, and you want to make us responsible for the death of this man."

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But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

But his subjects hated him and sent envoys after him to say 'We will not have this man as our King.'

The Jews again brought stones to throw at him;

As to Sin, for men do not believe in me;