1 Kings 18:17-18
17When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, a“Is it you, you btroubler of Israel?” 18And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have cabandoned the commandments of the Lord and dfollowed the Baals.Matthew 8:29
29And behold, they ecried out, “What have you to do with us, fO Son of God? Have you come here to torment us gbefore the time?”Matthew 23:37
Lament over Jerusalem
37 h“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that ikills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have jgathered kyour children together las a hen gathers her brood munder her wings, and nyou were not willing!John 11:47-48
47So the chief priests and the Pharisees ogathered pthe council and said, q“What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and rthe Romans will come and take away both our splace and our nation.”Acts 4:2
2greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming tin Jesus the resurrection from the dead.Acts 4:24-27
24And when they heard it, they lifted their voices utogether to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, vwho made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, 25who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, ▼▼Or child; also verses 27, 30
said by the Holy Spirit, x“‘Why did the Gentiles rage,
and the peoples plot in vain?
26The kings of the earth set themselves,
and ythe rulers were gathered together,
against the Lord and against his zAnointed’ ▼
▼Or Christ
—27for truly in this city there were gathered together against your abholy servant Jesus, acwhom you anointed, both adHerod and aePontius Pilate, along afwith the Gentiles and agthe peoples of Israel,
Acts 5:24-28
24Now when ahthe captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to. 25And someone came and told them, “Look! The men whom you put in prison aiare standing in the temple and teaching the people.” 26Then ajthe captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for akthey were afraid of being stoned by the people.27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, 28saying, al“We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you amintend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”
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