Matthew 22:6

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Matthew 22:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

5 But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.

6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

7 The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.

8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Matthew 5:10

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:11

Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.

Matthew 10:12

As you enter the home, greet its occupants.

Matthew 10:13

If the home is worthy, let your peace rest on it; but if it is not, let your peace return to you.

Matthew 10:14

And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.

Matthew 10:15

Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

Matthew 10:16

Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Matthew 10:17

But beware of men; for they will hand you over to their councils and flog you in their synagogues.

Matthew 10:18

On My account, you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.

Matthew 10:22

You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

Matthew 10:23

When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Matthew 10:24

A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

Matthew 10:25

It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!

Matthew 21:35

But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Matthew 21:36

Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.

Matthew 21:37

Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’

Matthew 21:39

So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

Matthew 23:34

Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.

Matthew 23:35

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on 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 23:36

Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Matthew 23:37

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

John 15:19

If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

John 15:20

Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

John 16:3

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

Acts 4:1

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

Acts 4:2

greatly disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

Acts 4:3

They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.

Acts 5:40

At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.

Acts 5:41

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

Acts 7:51

You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

Acts 7:53

you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”

Acts 7:54

On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.

Acts 7:55

But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

Acts 7:56

“Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”

Acts 7:57

At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.

Acts 8:1

And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.

1 Thessalonians 2:14

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,