Matthew 23:34

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

So I tell you this: I send to you prophets and teachers who are wise and know the Scriptures. You will kill some of them. You will hang some of them on crosses. You will beat some of them in your synagogues. You will chase them from town to town.

Cross References

Matthew 13:52

Then Jesus said to the followers, “So every teacher of the law who has learned about God’s kingdom has some new things to teach. He is like the owner of a house. He has new things and old things saved in that house. And he brings out the new with the old.”

Colossians 1:28

So we continue to tell people about Christ. We use all wisdom to counsel every person and teach every person. We are trying to bring everyone before God as people who have grown to be spiritually mature in Christ.

Acts 13:1

In the church at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers. They were Barnabas, Simeon (also called Niger), Lucius (from the city of Cyrene), Manaen (who had grown up with King Herod), and Saul.

Matthew 10:23

When you are treated badly in one city, go to another city. I promise you that you will not finish going to all the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes again.

Revelation 11:10

Everyone on the earth will be happy because these two are dead. They will have parties and send each other gifts. They will do this because these two prophets brought much suffering to the people living on earth.

Hebrews 11:37

They were killed with stones. They were cut in half. They were killed with swords. The only clothes some of them had were sheepskins or goatskins. They were poor, persecuted, and treated badly by others.

1 Corinthians 3:10

Like an expert builder I built the foundation of that house. I used the gift that God gave me to do this. Other people are building on that foundation. But everyone should be careful how they build.

1 Corinthians 2:6

We teach wisdom to people who are mature, but the wisdom we teach is not from this world. It is not the wisdom of the rulers of this world, who are losing their power.

Acts 15:32

Judas and Silas, who were also prophets, said many things to encourage the believers and make them stronger in their faith.

Acts 14:19

Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and persuaded the people to turn against Paul. So they threw stones at him and dragged him out of the town. They thought they had killed him.

Acts 12:2

He ordered James, the brother of John, to be killed with a sword.

Acts 11:27

About that same time some prophets went from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Acts 5:40

They called the apostles in again. They beat them and told them not to speak anymore using the name of Jesus. Then they let them go free.

Acts 1:8

But the Holy Spirit will come on you and give you power. You will be my witnesses. You will tell people everywhere about me—in Jerusalem, in the rest of Judea, in Samaria, and in every part of the world.”

John 20:21

Then Jesus said again, “Peace be with you. It was the Father who sent me, and I am now sending you in the same way.”

John 16:2

People will tell you to leave their synagogues and never come back. In fact, the time will come when they will think that killing you would be doing service for God.

Luke 24:47

You saw these things happen—you are witnesses. You must go and tell people that they must change and turn to God, which will bring them his forgiveness. You must start from Jerusalem and tell this message in my name to the people of all nations.

Proverbs 11:30

What good people produce is like a life-giving tree. Those who are wise give new life to others.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

And they are trying to stop us from teaching those who are not Jews. They don’t want them to be saved. But they are just adding more and more sins to the ones they already have. Now the time has come for them to suffer God’s anger.

2 Chronicles 24:21

But the people made plans against Zechariah. The king commanded the people to kill Zechariah, so they threw rocks at him until he was dead. The people did this in the courtyard of the Lord’s Temple.

Jeremiah 26:8

Jeremiah finished speaking everything the Lord had commanded him to say to the people. Then the priests, the prophets, and all the people grabbed Jeremiah. They said, “You will die for saying such terrible things!

Jeremiah 36:26

Instead King Jehoiakim commanded some men to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. These men were Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel. But they could not find Baruch and Jeremiah, because the Lord had hidden them.

Matthew 23:31

So you give proof that you are descendants of those who killed the prophets.

2 Kings 21:10

The Lord used his servants the prophets to say this: