1 Thessalonians 2:15

Paul recounts how some opposed the Lord Jesus, the prophets, and the apostles, displeasing God. He describes a pattern of resistance to God's messengers.

Cross-references · 18

• Matt 5:12Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
• Luke 11:48–53So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
• Acts 2:23him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
• Luke 13:33–34Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.’
• Matt 23:31–35Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
• Matt 27:25All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”
• Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
• Luke 24:20and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
• Matt 23:37“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
• Acts 5:30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
• Acts 12:3When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
• Esth 3:8Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.
• 1 Cor 10:5However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
• Acts 22:18–21and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’
• Amos 7:12Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
• Matt 21:35–39The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
• Acts 4:10be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.

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