Acts 7:52 Cross References

Acts 7:52

52: 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.

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.

1 Kings 19:10

  1. Elijah replied, "I have zealously served the LORD God Almighty. But the people of Israel have broken their covenant with you, torn down your altars, and killed every one of your prophets. I alone am left, and now they are trying to kill me, too."

1 Thessalonians 2:15

  1. 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

2 Chronicles 36:16

  1. But the people mocked these messengers of God and despised their words. They scoffed at the prophets until the LORD's anger could no longer be restrained and there was no remedy.

1 John 2:1

  1. My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if you do sin, there is someone to plead for you before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who pleases God completely.

Jeremiah 2:30

  1. I have punished your children, but it did them no good. They still refuse to obey. You yourselves have killed your prophets as a lion kills its prey.

Acts 3:14

  1. You rejected this holy, righteous one and instead demanded the release of a murderer.
  2. You killed the author of life, but God raised him to life. And we are witnesses of this fact!

Luke 11:47

  1. How terrible it will be for you! For you build tombs for the very prophets your ancestors killed long ago.
  2. Murderers! You agree with your ancestors that what they did was right. You would have done the same yourselves.
  3. 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.'
  4. "And you of this generation will be held responsible for the murder of all God's prophets from the creation of the world--
  5. 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.

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.

1 Samuel 8:7

  1. "Do as they say," the LORD replied, "for it is me they are rejecting, not you. They don't want me to be their king any longer.
  2. Ever since I brought them from Egypt they have continually forsaken me and followed other gods. And now they are giving you the same treatment.

Acts 22:14

  1. "Then he told me, 'The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and hear him speak.

2 Chronicles 24:19

  1. The LORD sent prophets to bring them back to him, but the people would not listen.
  2. Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, "This is what God says: Why do you disobey the LORD's commands so that you cannot prosper? You have abandoned the LORD, and now he has abandoned you!"
  3. Then the leaders plotted to kill Zechariah, and by order of King Joash himself, they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD's Temple.
  4. That was how King Joash repaid Jehoiada for his love and loyalty--by killing his son. Zechariah's last words as he died were, "May the LORD see what they are doing and hold them accountable!"

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.

Acts 3:24

  1. "Starting with Samuel, every prophet spoke about what is happening today.

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.

Nehemiah 9:26

  1. "But despite all this, they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They threw away your law, they killed the prophets who encouraged them to return to you, and they committed terrible blasphemies.

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.

Jeremiah 20:2

  1. So he arrested Jeremiah the prophet and had him whipped and put in stocks at the Benjamin Gate of the LORD's Temple.

Acts 3:18

  1. But God was fulfilling what all the prophets had declared about the Messiah beforehand--that he must suffer all these things.

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.

Acts 5:28

  1. "Didn't we tell you never again to teach in this man's name?" the high priest demanded. "Instead, you have filled all Jerusalem with your teaching about Jesus, and you intend to blame us for his death!"
  2. But Peter and the apostles replied, "We must obey God rather than human authority.
  3. The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead after you killed him by crucifying him.

Zechariah 9:9

  1. Rejoice greatly, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey--even on a donkey's colt.

Revelation 3:7

  1. "Write this letter to the angel of the church in Philadelphia. This is the message from the one who is holy and true. He is the one who has the key of David. He opens doors, and no one can shut them; he shuts doors, and no one can open them.

1 Kings 19:14

  1. He replied again, "I have zealously served the LORD God Almighty. But the people of Israel have broken their covenant with you, torn down your altars, and killed every one of your prophets. I alone am left, and now they are trying to kill me, too."

1 Peter 1:11

  1. They wondered what the Spirit of Christ within them was talking about when he told them in advance about Christ's suffering and his great glory afterward. They wondered when and to whom all this would happen.

Jeremiah 26:15

  1. But if you kill me, rest assured that you will be killing an innocent man! The responsibility for such a deed will lie on you, on this city, and on every person living in it. For it is absolutely true that the LORD sent me to speak every word you have heard."

Revelation 19:10

  1. Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said, "No, don't worship me. For I am a servant of God, just like you and other brothers and sisters who testify of their faith in Jesus. Worship God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus. "

Jeremiah 26:23

  1. They took him prisoner and brought him back to King Jehoiakim. The king then killed Uriah with a sword and had him buried in an unmarked grave.)
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