1 Thes 2:15 Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:15

15: For some of the Jews had killed their own prophets, and some even killed the Lord Jesus. Now they have persecuted us and driven us out. They displease God and oppose everyone

Matthew 5:12

  1. Be happy about it! Be very glad! For a great reward awaits you in heaven. And remember, the ancient prophets were persecuted, too.

Acts 2:23

  1. But you followed God's prearranged plan. With the help of lawless Gentiles, you nailed him to the cross and murdered him.

Acts 7:52

  1. Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One--the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.

Luke 11:48

  1. Murderers! You agree with your ancestors that what they did was right. You would have done the same yourselves.
  2. This is what God in his wisdom said about you: 'I will send prophets and apostles to them, and they will kill some and persecute the others.'
  3. "And you of this generation will be held responsible for the murder of all God's prophets from the creation of the world--
  4. from the murder of Abel to the murder of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, it will surely be charged against you.
  5. "How terrible it will be for you experts in religious law! For you hide the key to knowledge from the people. You don't enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering."

Esther 3:8

  1. Then Haman approached King Xerxes and said, "There is a certain race of people scattered through all the provinces of your empire. Their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they refuse to obey even the laws of the king. So it is not in the king's interest to let them live.

Luke 24:20

  1. But our leading priests and other religious leaders arrested him and handed him over to be condemned to death, and they crucified him.

Matthew 23:37

  1. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn't let me.

Matthew 27:25

  1. And all the people yelled back, "We will take responsibility for his death--we and our children!"

Matthew 23:31

  1. "In saying that, you are accusing yourselves of being the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
  2. Go ahead. Finish what they started.
  3. Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?
  4. I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers of religious law. You will kill some by crucifixion and whip others in your synagogues, chasing them from city to city.
  5. As a result, you will become guilty of murdering all the godly people from righteous Abel to Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered in the Temple between the altar and the sanctuary.

Luke 13:33

  1. Yes, today, tomorrow, and the next day I must proceed on my way. For it wouldn't do for a prophet of God to be killed except in Jerusalem!
  2. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn't let me.

Matthew 21:35

  1. But the farmers grabbed his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
  2. So the landowner sent a larger group of his servants to collect for him, but the results were the same.
  3. "Finally, the owner sent his son, thinking, 'Surely they will respect my son.'
  4. "But when the farmers saw his son coming, they said to one another, 'Here comes the heir to this estate. Come on, let's kill him and get the estate for ourselves!'
  5. So they grabbed him, took him out of the vineyard, and murdered him.

Acts 12:3

  1. When Herod saw how much this pleased the Jewish leaders, he arrested Peter during the Passover celebration

Amos 7:12

  1. Then Amaziah sent orders to Amos: "Get out of here, you seer! Go on back to the land of Judah and do your preaching there!

Acts 3:15

  1. You killed the author of life, but God raised him to life. And we are witnesses of this fact!

Acts 22:18

  1. I saw a vision of Jesus saying to me, 'Hurry! Leave Jerusalem, for the people here won't believe you when you give them your testimony about me.'
  2. "'But Lord,' I argued, 'they certainly know that I imprisoned and beat those in every synagogue who believed on you.
  3. And when your witness Stephen was killed, I was standing there agreeing. I kept the coats they laid aside as they stoned him.'
  4. "But the Lord said to me, 'Leave Jerusalem, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles!'"

Acts 5:30

  1. The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead after you killed him by crucifying him.

1 Corinthians 10:5

  1. Yet after all this, God was not pleased with most of them, and he destroyed them in the wilderness.

Acts 4:10

  1. Let me clearly state to you and to all the people of Israel that he was healed in the name and power of Jesus Christ from Nazareth, the man you crucified, but whom God raised from the dead.
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