Matthew 26:24

New Century Version

The Son of Man will die, just as the Scriptures say. But how terrible it will be for the person who hands the Son of Man over to be killed. It would be better for him if he had never been born.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel.”

Psalm 55:15

Let death take away my enemies. Let them die while they are still young because evil lives with them.

Psalm 55:23

But, God, you will bring down the wicked to the grave. Murderers and liars will live only half a lifetime. But I will trust in you.

Daniel 9:26

After the four hundred thirty-four years the appointed leader will be killed; he will have nothing. The people of the leader who is to come will destroy the city and the holy place. The end of the city will come like a flood, and war will continue until the end. God has ordered that place to be completely destroyed.

Zechariah 12:10

“I will pour out on David’s family and the people in Jerusalem a spirit of kindness and mercy. They will look at me, the one they have stabbed, and they will cry like someone crying over the death of an only child. They will be as sad as someone who has lost a firstborn son.

Zechariah 13:7

“Sword, hit the shepherd. Attack the man who is my friend,” says the Lord All-Powerful. “Kill the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter, and I will punish the little ones.”

Matthew 18:7

How terrible for the people of the world because of the things that cause them to sin. Such things will happen, but how terrible for the one who causes them to happen!

Matthew 26:31

Jesus told his followers, “Tonight you will all stumble in your faith on account of me, because it is written in the Scriptures: ‘I will kill the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter.’

Matthew 26:54

But it must happen this way to bring about what the Scriptures say.”

Matthew 26:56

But all these things have happened so that it will come about as the prophets wrote.” Then all of Jesus’ followers left him and ran away.

Mark 14:21

The Son of Man will die, just as the Scriptures say. But how terrible it will be for the person who hands the Son of Man over to be killed. It would be better for him if he had never been born.”

Mark 9:12

Jesus answered, “They are right to say that Elijah must come first and make everything the way it should be. But why does the Scripture say that the Son of Man will suffer much and that people will treat him as if he were nothing?

Luke 22:22

What God has planned for the Son of Man will happen, but how terrible it will be for that one who turns against the Son of Man.”

Luke 24:46

He said to them, “It is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day

John 17:12

While I was with them, I kept them safe by the power of your name, the name you gave me. I protected them, and only one of them, the one worthy of destruction, was lost so that the Scripture would come true.

John 19:24

So the soldiers said to each other, “We should not tear this into parts. Let’s throw lots to see who will get it.” This happened so that this Scripture would come true: “They divided my clothes among them, and they threw lots for my clothing.” So the soldiers did this.

John 19:28

After this, Jesus knew that everything had been done. So that the Scripture would come true, he said, “I am thirsty.”

Acts 2:23

Jesus was given to you, and with the help of those who don’t know the law, you put him to death by nailing him to a cross. But this was God’s plan which he had made long ago; he knew all this would happen.

Acts 28:23

Paul and the people chose a day for a meeting and on that day many more of the Jews met with Paul at the place he was staying. He spoke to them all day long. Using the law of Moses and the prophets’ writings, he explained the kingdom of God, and he tried to persuade them to believe these things about Jesus.

Acts 4:28

These people made your plan happen because of your power and your will.

1 Corinthians 15:3

I passed on to you what I received, of which this was most important: that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures say;