that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
Parallel translations
- WEB that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
- KJV That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
- BSB As a result, this generation will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world,
- ESV so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,
- NASB so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,
- NLT “As a result, this generation will be held responsible for the murder of all God’s prophets from the creation of the world—
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Quick answer
The guilt for all the prophets' blood, shed since the world's foundation, will be required of this generation. It warns that persistent, climactic rejection of God's messengers brings accumulated judgment.
Overview
Jesus declares that the generation rejecting Him would face the reckoning for the long history of murdered prophets, because in spurning the Son they bring the rebellion to its head. This is not arbitrary but the just consequence of refusing the fullest revelation of God. It underscores the seriousness of rejecting Christ, who is the climax of all God had been saying through His prophets.
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- Gen 9:5–6I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
- Rev 18:20–24“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”
- 2 Kgs 24:4and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
- Num 35:33“‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
- Jer 7:29Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
- Isa 26:21For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
- Jer 51:56For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for Yahweh is a God of recompenses. He will surely repay.
- Ps 9:12For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
- Exod 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
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