Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

Cross References (28)

  • Matthew 5:12 (9)

    Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you

  • 1 Kings 19:10 (8)

    “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant,

  • 2 Chronicles 36:16 (8)

    But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD aga

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:15 (7)

    who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile

  • Matthew 23:31–37 (6)

    So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

  • Jeremiah 2:30 (6)

    “I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voraciou

  • Acts 3:14–15 (6)

    You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

  • Luke 11:47–51 (6)

    Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.

  • Revelation 19:10 (4)

    So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers

  • Acts 5:28–30 (4)

    “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and ar

  • Jeremiah 26:15 (3)

    But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, upon this city, and upo

  • Acts 3:18 (3)

    But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.

  • Acts 2:23 (3)

    He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by naili

  • 1 Samuel 8:7–8 (3)

    And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have

  • 2 Chronicles 24:19–22 (3)

    Nevertheless, the LORD sent prophets to bring the people back to Him and to testify against them, but they would not lis

  • Luke 13:33–34 (3)

    Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish ou

  • Matthew 21:35–41 (3)

    But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

  • Jeremiah 20:2 (3)

    he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LO

  • 1 John 2:1 (3)

    My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advoca

  • 1 Kings 19:14 (3)

    “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant,

  • Acts 3:24 (3)

    Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.

  • Acts 22:14 (3)

    Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear His vo

  • Jeremiah 26:23 (3)

    They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him put to the sword and his body thrown into th

  • Nehemiah 9:26 (2)

    But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, w

  • Acts 4:10 (2)

    then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who

  • Zechariah 9:9 (2)

    Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous a

  • Revelation 3:7 (1)

    To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key

  • 1 Peter 1:11 (1)

    trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the suffer