Luke 11:49 Meaning and Explanation
“Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:”
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What Does Luke 11:49 Mean?
Jesus announces God's deliberate response: knowing how his messengers would be treated, the wisdom of God still resolved to send prophets and apostles -- an unbroken line of sent ones, some to be slain, some persecuted.
Here is the costliness of God's patience: he keeps sending, generation after generation, though his servants pay with their lives -- and at last he sends his Son. The apostles Jesus would send were hearing their own future. God's persistence in speaking to a resistant world is mercy written at great price.
Luke 11:49 in the Original Language
apostolos (ἀπόστολος), 'apostles' -- ones sent out with their sender's authority.
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What does Luke 11:49 mean?
Therefore the wisdom of God said: I will send them prophets and apostles, and some they will kill and persecute.