Mark 9:13

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”

You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’

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

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

They, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, for they are a rebellious house, yet they will know that there has been a prophet among them.

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

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,

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”

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

“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.

but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”

While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

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

They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

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

Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.

As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

“Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

“Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.

A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.

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

and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.

“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!

What do you think?” They answered, “He is worthy of death!”

Some of them who stood there, when they heard it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.”

The baptism of John—was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me.”

Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.

But those farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

He came the third time, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Herod said, “I beheaded John, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him.

He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;

When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

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

He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’

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.

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”

I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”