Matthew 23:34

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

³³ You serpents! You brood of vipers! How can you escape a sentence to the pit! ³⁴  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, ³⁵ so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

For This Cause

Law and the Prophets

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Put to Death

Teachers of the Law

Wise Men

Matthew 10:16-17

"Listen! I am sending you out as sheep surrounded by wolves. So you must be sensible like serpents and guileless like doves.

Matthew 10:23

But whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to a different one. For I solemnly say to you, you will not cover all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man returns.

Matthew 13:52

He said to them, "Every scribe who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who can bring out of his storeroom new furnishings as well as old."

Acts 13:1

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who is called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen who was an intimate friend of the governor, and Saul.

Matthew 23:34-36

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,

Matthew 28:19-20

Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptize them into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

Luke 11:49-51

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and some they will persecute';

Luke 24:47

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

John 16:2

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.

John 20:21

Jesus again said to them, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father has sent me forth, so I am now sending you."

Acts 1:8

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."

Acts 5:40

They were convinced by him, and after calling the apostles in and having them flogged, they charged them to stop speaking on the authority of Jesus, and then turned them loose.

Acts 7:51-52

"You people, stubborn in will, heathenish in hearts and ears, you are always resisting the Holy Spirit, as your forefathers did, too.

Acts 7:58-59

and dragged him out of the city and continued stoning him. The witnesses, in the meantime, laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 9:1-2

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

Acts 11:27

At that time some prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch,

Acts 12:2

He had James the brother of John murdered with a sword,

Acts 14:19

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the crowds by persuasion, and they stoned Paul, and dragged him outside the town, supposing he was dead.

Acts 15:32

Now Judas and Silas, as they were prophets themselves, in a lengthy talk encouraged and strengthened the brothers.

Acts 22:19-20

So I said, 'Lord, they know for themselves that from one synagogue to another I used to imprison and flog those who believed in you,

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet, when among mature believers we do set forth a wisdom, but a wisdom that does not belong to this world or to the leaders of this world who are passing away;

1 Corinthians 3:10

As a skilled architect, in accordance with God's unmerited favor given to me, I laid a foundation, and now another is building upon it. But every builder must be careful how he builds upon it;

1 Corinthians 12:3-11

So I want to inform you that no one speaking under the power of the Spirit of God can say, "Jesus is accursed!" and no one except one under the power of the Holy Spirit can really say, "Jesus is Lord!"

2 Corinthians 11:24-25

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

Ephesians 4:8-12

Concerning this the Scripture says: "He led a host of captives, when He went up on high, and granted gifts to men."

Colossians 1:28

We are proclaiming Him, warning everyone and teaching everyone with ample wisdom, in order to present to God everyone mature through union with Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

by trying to keep us from speaking to the heathen, so that they may be saved, so as always to fill to the brim the cup of their sins. But at last God's wrath has come upon them.

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. With nothing on their bodies but skins of sheep or goats they wandered here and there, destitute, oppressed, mistreated --

Revelation 11:10

The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and celebrate with feasts and the sending of gifts to one another, because these two prophets had tormented the inhabitants of the earth.