cCited Acts 4:25, 26
1 Samuel 8:7
7And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, afor they have not rejected you, bbut they have rejected me from being king over them.Psalms 2:1-3
The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed
1 cWhy do dthe nations rage ▼▼Or nations noisily assemble
and the peoples plot in vain?
2The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his fAnointed, saying,
3“Let us gburst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”
Isaiah 49:7
7 Thus says the Lord,hthe Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,
ito one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation,
the servant of rulers:
j“Kings shall see and arise;
princes, and they shall prostrate themselves;
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Zechariah 11:8
8In one month kI destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.Luke 19:27
27But las for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and mslaughter them before me.’”John 1:11
11He came to nhis own, ▼▼Greek to his own things; that is, to his own domain, or to his own people
and phis own people ▼▼People is implied in Greek
rdid not receive him. John 15:18
The Hatred of the World
18 s“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.John 15:23-24
23 tWhoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 uIf I had not done among them the works that no one else did, vthey would not be guilty of sin, but now they have wseen and hated both me and my Father.
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