Bible Cross References
the priests
Jeremiah 2:30
In vain I have chastened your children; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 11:19-21
19
But I was like a docile lamb being led to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be remembered no more.
20
But, O Jehovah of Hosts, who judges righteously, who tries the mind and the heart, let me see Your vengeance on them. For to You I have laid open my cause.
21
Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, Do not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that you do not die by our hand.
Jeremiah 12:5
If you have run with footmen, and they wore you out, then how can you compete with horses? And if you feel secure in the land of peace, then how will you do in the swelling of the Jordan?
Jeremiah 12:6
For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you. Yea, they have called out a multitude after you. Do not believe them, though they speak pleasant things to you.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come and let us devise schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.
Jeremiah 20:1
Now Pashur, the son of Immer the priest (he was chief officer in the house of Jehovah), heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
Jeremiah 20:2
Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 20:8-11
8
For whenever I speak, I cry out, I cry violence and devastation; for the Word of Jehovah has been a reproach and a derision to me all the day.
9
Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak in His name any more. But His Word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding it in, and I could not.
10
For I have heard the whisperings of many, terror is all around. Proclaim, they say, and we will report it. Everyone at peace with me is watching for me to stumble and fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail against him, and shall take our revenge on him.
11
But Jehovah is with me like a mighty, awesome one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail. They shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not succeed. Their everlasting reproach shall never be forgotten.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, to make the wrath of Jehovah swell up against His people, till there was no healing.
Lamentations 4:13
For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,
Lamentations 4:14
they have wandered as blind men in the streets; they are defiled with blood, so that no one could touch their clothes.
Matthew 21:35-39
35
And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
36
Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them.
37
Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, They will respect my son.
38
But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.
39
So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him.
Matthew 22:6
And the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.
Matthew 23:31-35
31
Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
33
Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape the condemnation of Gehenna?
34
Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,
35
in order that on you may come all the righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
Matthew 26:4
and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.
Matthew 26:59-66
59
Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the council sought false testimony against Jesus to put Him to death,
60
but found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward
61
and said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.
62
And the high priest arose and said to Him, Do You answer nothing? What is it these men bear witness against You?
63
But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, I adjure You by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!
64
Jesus said to him, You said it. Nevertheless, I say to you, Hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
65
Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy! What further need do we have of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard His blasphemy!
66
What is your opinion? They answered and said, He is worthy of death.
Acts 5:33
When they heard this, they were cut to the heart and took counsel to do away with them.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they, who received the Law by the command of angels and did not keep it, killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One,
Revelation 18:24
And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.