Matthew 23:34

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

I send

Prophets

And wise

Scribes

Matthew 13:52

Ye

General references

John 17:18

Bible References

I send

See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

Go then, and make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;

And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.

And Jesus said to them again, May peace be with you! As the Father sent me, even so I now send you.

But you will have power, when the Holy Spirit has come on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

So it is my desire for you to be clear about this; that no one is able to say by the Spirit of God that Jesus is cursed; and no one is able to say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.

Prophets

Now in those days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul.

And Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, gave teaching to the brothers and made them strong in the faith.

And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth.

And wise

The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.

But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:

In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

Whom we are preaching; guiding and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that every man may be complete in Christ;

Scribes

And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.

Ye

See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.

And he seemed to them to be right: and they sent for the Apostles, and, after having them whipped and giving them orders to give no teaching in the name of Jesus, they let them go.

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

But Saul, still burning with desire to put to death the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

And he put James, the brother of John, to death with the sword.

But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.

And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you:

Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one.

Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,

General references

And the Lord said, by his servants the prophets,

Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.

And when they take you before the Synagogues and the authorities and the rulers, take no thought about what answers you will give, or what you will say:

And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.

Even as you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.