Quotes About Prophets

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.

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!

The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

But Abraham replied, ëThey have Moses and the prophets; let your brothers listen to them.í

Then Abraham said to him, ëIf they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.í”

Then Jesus took the Twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything the prophets have written about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

“Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.

Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”

Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.

Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.

And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ëThrough your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.í

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ëDid you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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—

All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”

In those days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written:

Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the brothers.

I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.”