13 Bible Verses about Killing Prophets
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Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have demolished thine altars; I alone am left, and they seek my life.
it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!
but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.
while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them.
but they took and flogged him and sent him off with nothing. Once more he sent them another servant; him they knocked on the head and insulted. He sent another, but they killed him. And so they treated many others; some they flogged and some they killed.read more.
He had still one left, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.' But these vinedressers said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be our own.' So they took and killed him, and threw him outside the vineyard.
and you say 'If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
So you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those who killed the prophets!
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! ??53 you who got the Law that angels transmitted, and have not obeyed it!"
But, when they have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascends from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,
They poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink! They deserve it!"