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

But you, by your union with Christ Jesus, belong to God; and Christ, by God's will, became not only our Wisdom, but also our Righteousness, Holiness, and Deliverance,

Even Christ himself, in whom all treasures of wisdom and knowledge lie hidden.

I will

And that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed on his authority to all the nations--beginning at Jerusalem.

That is why I send you Prophets, wise men, and Teachers of the Law, some of whom you will crucify and kill, and some of whom you will scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from town to town;

But you shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit shall have descended upon you, and shall be witnesses for me not only in Jerusalem, but throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

And he it is who gave to the Church Apostles, Prophets, Missionaries, Pastors, and Teachers,

And some

You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and relations and friends, and they will cause some of you to be put to death,

While the rest, seizing his servants, ill-treated them and killed them.

They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.

At this, with a loud shout, they stopped their ears and all rushed upon him, forced him outside the city,

Saul approved of his being put to death. On that very day a great persecution broke out against the Church which was in Jerusalem; and its members, with the exception of the Apostles, were all scattered over the districts of Judea and Samaria.

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the High Priest,

It was at that time that King Herod began to ill-treat some of the members of the Church.

In my persecution of this Cause I did not stop even at the taking of life. I put in chains, and imprisoned, men and women alike--

And I actually did so at Jerusalem. Acting on the authority of the Chief Priests, I myself threw many of the People of Christ into prison, and, when it was proposed to put them to death, I gave my vote for it.

Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty lashes, all but one.