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

But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;

In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up, hidden from view.

I will

and that proclamation would be made, in His name, of repentance and forgiveness of sins to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

"For this reason I am sending to you Prophets and wise men and Scribes. Some of them you will put to death--nay, crucify; some of them you will flog in your synagogues and chase from town to town;

and yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and Samaria and to the remotest parts of the earth."

And He Himself appointed some to be Apostles, some to be Prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers,

And some

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, friends; and some of you they will put to death.

and the rest seized the king's servants, maltreated them, and murdered them.

You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.

Upon this, with a loud outcry they stopped their ears, rushed upon Stephen in a body,

And Saul fully approved of his murder. At this time a great persecution broke out against the Church in Jerusalem, and all except the Apostles were scattered throughout Judaea and Samaria.

Now Saul, whose every breath was a threat of destruction for the disciples of the Lord,

Now, about that time, King Herod arrested certain members of the Church, in order to ill-treat them;

I persecuted to death this new faith, continually binding both men and women and throwing them into prison;

And that was how I acted in Jerusalem. Armed with authority received from the High Priests I shut up many of God's people in various prisons, and when they were about to be put to death I gave my vote against them.

From the Jews I five times have received forty lashes all but one.