Acts 7:52

“In vain I have struck your sons; They received no discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

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

“So you bear witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

“Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For their fathers were doing the same things to the prophets.

and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me;

“But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

saying, “We strictly commanded you not to continue teaching in this name, and yet, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”

“The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and lifted up the people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out from it.

“And he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from His mouth.

who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and do not please God, and are hostile to all men,

treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,