'Prophets' in the Bible
and came and dwelt in a town called Nazareth; so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, He shall be called a Nazaraean.
Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Think not that I am come to make void the law or the prophets; I am not come to make void, but to fulfil.
Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do ye also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
But beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravening wolves.
For all the prophets and the law have prophesied unto John.
for verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things which ye behold and did not see them, and to hear the things which ye hear and did not hear them.
And they said, Some, John the baptist; and others, Elias; and others again, Jeremias or one of the prophets.
On these two commandments the whole law and the prophets hang.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just,
and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:
Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
and many false prophets shall arise and shall mislead many;
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
But all this is come to pass that the scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled.
And others said, It is Elias; and others said, It is a prophet, as one of the prophets.
And they answered him, saying, John the baptist; and others, Elias; but others, One of the prophets.
For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and give signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began;
rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in the heaven, for after this manner did their fathers act toward the prophets.
Woe, when all men speak well of you, for after this manner did their fathers to the false prophets.
and by some that Elias had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.
But they answering said, John the baptist; but others, Elias; and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again.
For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things which ye behold, and did not see them; and to hear the things which ye hear, and did not hear them.
Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.
For this reason also the wisdom of God has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of these shall they kill and drive out by persecution,
that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves cast out.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen her brood under her wings, and ye would not.
The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.
But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.
And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among the dead will they be persuaded.
And he took the twelve to him and said to them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written of the Son of man by the prophets shall be accomplished;
And he said to them, O senseless and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
And he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all that is written concerning me in the law of Moses and prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.
Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, Jesus, the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth.
It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father himself, and has learned of him, comes to me;
The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham has died, and the prophets, and thou sayest, If any one keep my word, he shall never taste death.
Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who has died? and the prophets have died: whom makest thou thyself?
but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.
whom heaven indeed must receive till the times of the restoring of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since time began.
And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession after him, as many as have spoken, have announced also these days.
Ye are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now become deliverers up and murderers!
To him all the prophets bear witness that every one that believes on him will receive through his name remission of sins.
Now in these days prophets went down from Jerusalem to Antioch;
Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation to the people, speak.
for those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, have fulfilled also the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath, by judging him.
See therefore that that which is spoken in the prophets do not come upon you,
And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written:
And Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets, exhorted the brethren with much discourse, and strengthened them.
But this I avow to thee, that in the way which they call sect, so I serve my fathers' God, believing all things which are written throughout the law, and in the prophets;
Having therefore met with the help which is from God, I have stood firm unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing else than those things which both the prophets and Moses have said should happen,
King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
And having appointed him a day many came to him to the lodging, to whom he expounded, testifying of the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from early morning to evening.
(which he had before promised by his prophets in holy writings,)
But now without law righteousness of God is manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets;
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I have been left alone, and they seek my life.
And God has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers; then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tongues.
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all in possession of miraculous powers?
And let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.
And spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone,
which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,
and he has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,
who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and are against all men,
God having spoken in many parts and in many ways formerly to the fathers in the prophets,
And what more do I say? For the time would fail me telling of Gideon, and Barak, and Samson, and Jephthah, and David and Samuel, and of the prophets:
Take as an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
Concerning which salvation prophets, who have prophesied of the grace towards you, sought out and searched out;
But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;
to be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Saviour by your apostles;
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound the trumpet, the mystery of God also shall be completed, as he has made known the glad tidings to his own bondmen the prophets.
And they that dwell upon the earth rejoice over them, and are full of delight, and shall send gifts one to another, because these, the two prophets, tormented them that dwell upon the earth.
And the nations have been full of wrath, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the recompense to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to those who fear thy name, small and great; and to destroy those that destroy the earth.
for they have poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; they are worthy.
Rejoice over her, heaven, and ye saints and apostles and prophets; for God has judged your judgment upon her.
And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all the slain upon the earth.
And he said to me, These words are faithful and true; and the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets has sent his angel to shew to his bondmen the things which must soon come to pass.
And he says to me, See thou do it not. I am thy fellow-bondman, and the fellow-bondman of thy brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Do homage to God.
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