12 (A)Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for (B)so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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while the rest seized his servants, (A)treated them shamefully, and (B)killed them.

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34 (A)Therefore (B)I send you (C)prophets and wise men and (D)scribes, (E)some of whom you will kill and crucify, and (F)some you will (G)flog in your synagogues and (H)persecute from town to town,

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Lament over Jerusalem

37 (A)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that (B)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have (C)gathered (D)your children together (E)as a hen gathers her brood (F)under her wings, and (G)you were not willing!

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19 (A)Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the Lord. (B)These testified against them, but they would not pay attention.

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15 The Lord, the God of their fathers, (A)sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 (B)But they kept mocking the messengers of God, (C)despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, (D)until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

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26 (A)“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you (B)and cast your law behind their back (C)and killed your prophets, who (D)had warned them in order to turn them back to you, (E)and they committed great blasphemies.

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15 And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him (A)and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.

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So they took Jeremiah (A)and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in (B)the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down (C)by ropes. (D)And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and (E)Jeremiah sank in the mud.

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52 (A)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of (B)the Righteous One, (C)whom you have now betrayed and murdered,

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24 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the (A)forty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was (B)beaten with rods. (C)Once I was stoned. Three times I (D)was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, (E)danger from my own people, (F)danger from Gentiles, (G)danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;

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15 (A)who killed both the Lord Jesus and (B)the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and (C)oppose all mankind

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36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even (A)chains and imprisonment. 37 (B)They were stoned, they were sawn in two,[a] (C)they were killed with the sword. (D)They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 11:37 Some manuscripts add they were tempted

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