Now the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed.

But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent.

But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’

Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.

At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, “Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you.”

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!’

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!