Luke 11:49

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Summary

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

The wisdom

1 Corinthians 1:30

Colossians 2:3

I will

And some

Bible References

The wisdom

So you owe it all to Him through union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom, our means of right standing, our consecration, and our redemption,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up.

I will

and that in His name repentance as the condition for the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the nations. Beginning at Jerusalem

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,

but you are going to receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you must be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."

And He has given some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers,

And some

Yes, you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and they will put some of you to death,

and the rest seized his slaves, treated them with violence, and murdered them.

Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.

But they raised a great shout and held their ears, and all together rushed upon him,

Saul heartily approved of his being put to death. So on that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all of them, except the apostles, were scattered over Judea and Samaria.

Now Saul, as he was still breathing threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

About that time Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, in order to do them violence.

I persecuted this Way even to the death, and kept on binding both men and women and putting them in jail,

That was what I did at Jerusalem; yes, I received authority from the high priests and shut behind the prison bars many of God's people. Yes, when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them, and often in all the synagogues

Five times I have taken thirty-nine lashes from the Jews,