"Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of th…" — Acts 7:52

Acts 7:52 · KJV

“Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:”

— Acts 7:52

Verse 51

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers {did}, so {do} ye.

Verse 53

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept {it}.

Acts 7 — Context

Hath not my hand made all these things?

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers {did}, so {do} ye.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept {it}.

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with {their} teeth.

Cross References

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great {is} your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till {there was} no remedy. {remedy: Heb. healing}

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, {even} I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: {persecuted us: or, chased us out}

Luke 11:47-51

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Matthew 23:31-37

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Acts 3:14-15

But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;