Luke 24:20

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

Which 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.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Haman 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 from 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.

However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

“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!

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.

For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end.”

Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, “They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots.” Therefore the soldiers did these things.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”

Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

He said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times.”

When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

may it be 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, this man stands here before you whole in him.

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.