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Matthew 5:12 (Listen)

• Matthew 4
• Matthew 5
• Matthew 6

12 iRejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for jso they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Matthew 22:6 (Listen)

• Matthew 21
• Matthew 22
• Matthew 23

6 while the rest seized his servants, wtreated them shamefully, and xkilled them.

Matthew 23:34 (Listen)

• Matthew 22
• Matthew 23
• Matthew 24

34 xTherefore yI send you zprophets and wise men and ascribes, bsome of whom you will kill and crucify, and bsome you will cflog in your synagogues and dpersecute from town to town,

Matthew 23:37 (Listen)

• Matthew 22
• Matthew 23
• Matthew 24

Lament over Jerusalem

37 k“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that lkills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have mgathered nyour children together oas a hen gathers her brood punder her wings, and qyou were not willing!

2 Chronicles 24:19 (Listen)

• 2 Chronicles 23
• 2 Chronicles 24
• 2 Chronicles 25

19 qYet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the Lord. rThese testified against them, but they would not pay attention.

2 Chronicles 36:15-16 (Listen)

• 2 Chronicles 35
• 2 Chronicles 36
• Ezra 1

15 The Lord, the God of their fathers, csent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 dBut they kept mocking the messengers of God, edespising his words and scoffing at his prophets, funtil the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Nehemiah 9:26 (Listen)

• Nehemiah 8
• Nehemiah 9
• Nehemiah 10

26 y“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you zand cast your law behind their back aand killed your prophets, who bhad warned them in order to turn them back to you, cand they committed great blasphemies.

Jeremiah 37:15 (Listen)

• Jeremiah 36
• Jeremiah 37
• Jeremiah 38

15 And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him vand imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.

Jeremiah 38:6 (Listen)

• Jeremiah 37
• Jeremiah 38
• Jeremiah 39

6 So they took Jeremiah mand cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in nthe court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down oby ropes. pAnd there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and qJeremiah sank in the mud.

Acts 7:52 (Listen)

• Acts 6
• Acts 7
• Acts 8

52 gWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of hthe Righteous One, iwhom you have now betrayed and murdered,

2 Corinthians 11:24-26 (Listen)

• 2 Corinthians 10
• 2 Corinthians 11
• 2 Corinthians 12

24 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the gforty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was hbeaten with rods. iOnce I was stoned. Three times I jwas shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, kdanger from my own people, ldanger from Gentiles, mdanger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;

1 Thessalonians 2:15 (Listen)

• 1 Thessalonians 1
• 1 Thessalonians 2
• 1 Thessalonians 3

15 rwho killed both the Lord Jesus and sthe prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and toppose all mankind

Hebrews 11:36-37 (Listen)

• Hebrews 10
• Hebrews 11
• Hebrews 12

36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even pchains and imprisonment. 37 qThey were stoned, they were sawn in two,1 rthey were killed with the sword. sThey went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—