1 Thessalonians 2:15

The Thessalonians' Response To Paul's Message

¹⁴ For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in union with the Messiah Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from the people of your own country as they did from those Jews ¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who have persecuted us, and who please neither God nor any group of people, ¹⁶ as they try to keep us from telling the gentiles how they can be saved. As a result, they are constantly adding to the number of sins they have committed. However, wrath has overtaken them at last!

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Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and be extremely glad, because your reward in heaven is great! That's how they persecuted the prophets who came before you."

Acts 2:23

After he was arrested according to the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified this very man and killed him using the hands of lawless men.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors fail to persecute? They killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

Esther 3:8

Then Haman told King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and divided among the people throughout the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different than all the other people, they don't obey the king's laws, and it's not in the king's best interest to leave them alone.

Matthew 23:31-35

Therefore, you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 23:37

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Matthew 27:25

All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and our children!"

Luke 11:48-53

So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed those for whom you are building monuments.

Luke 13:33-34

But I must be on my way today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it's not possible for a prophet to be killed outside of Jerusalem.'

Amos 7:12

So Amaziah kept saying to Amos, "Get out of here, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Live there and prophesy there.

Matthew 21:35-39

But the farmers took his servants and beat one, killed another, and attacked another with stones.

Luke 24:20

They answered him, "The events involving Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in what he said and did before God and all the people, and how our high priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and had him crucified.

Acts 3:15

and you killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses to that.

Acts 4:10

you and all the people of Israel must understand that this man stands healthy before you because of the name of Jesus from Nazareth, whom you crucified, but whom God raised from the dead.

Acts 5:30

The God of our ancestors raised Jesus to life after you killed him by hanging him on a tree.

Acts 12:3

When he saw how this was agreeable to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter, too. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

Acts 22:18-21

and saw the Lord saying to me, "Hurry up and get out of Jerusalem at once, because the people won't accept your testimony about me.'

1 Corinthians 10:5

But God wasn't pleased with most of those people, and so they were struck down in the wilderness.