Luke 11:49

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge lie hidden!

I will

and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town;

You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses at Jerusalem, throughout all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

he granted some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to shepherd and teach,

And some

You will be betrayed by your very parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and some of you will be put to death.

while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them.

They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.

With a loud shriek they shut their ears and rushed at him like one man.

(Saul quite approved of his murder.) That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone, with the exception of the apostles, was scattered over Judaea and Samaria.

Meanwhile Saul still breathed threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest

It was about that time that king Herod laid hands of violence on some members of the church.

I persecuted this Way of religion to the death, chaining and imprisoning both men and women,

I did so in Jerusalem. I shut up many of the saints in prison, armed with authority from the high priests; when they were put to death, I voted against them;

five times have I got forty lashes (all but one) from the Jews,