Matthew 23:34

Jesus Predicts Their Punishment

³³ You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of hell? ³⁴ Therefore take notice, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; ³⁵ that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

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Matthew 10:16-17

"Look, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Matthew 10:23

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for truly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."

Acts 13:1

Now in the church that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

2 Chronicles 36:15-16

The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

Matthew 23:34-36

Therefore take notice, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Matthew 28:19-20

Therefore go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Luke 11:49-51

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

Luke 24:47

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

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogues, but an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think that he is offering a service to God.

John 20:21

Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you."

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."

Acts 5:40

They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Acts 7:51-52

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so you do.

Acts 7:58-59

They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 9:1-2

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

Acts 11:27

Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Acts 12:2

He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

Acts 14:19

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

Acts 15:32

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words, and strengthened them.

Acts 22:19-20

I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

1 Corinthians 2:6

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are mature, but a wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who will pass away.

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

1 Corinthians 12:3-11

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 11:24-25

Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.

Ephesians 4:8-12

Therefore he says, "When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men."

Colossians 1:28

whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

1 Thessalonians 2:16

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned. They were sawed apart. They were killed with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, mistreated

Revelation 11:10

Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.