the priests.

Jeremiah 2:30
"I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.

Jeremiah 11:19-21
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name will be remembered no more." . . .

Jeremiah 12:5, 6
"If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan? . . .

Jeremiah 18:18
Then some said, "Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, or counsel to the wise, or an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words."

Jeremiah 20:1, 2, 8-11
When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the temple of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things, . . .

2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

Lamentations 4:13, 14
But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst. . . .

Matthew 21:35-39
But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. . . .

Matthew 22:6
The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

Matthew 23:31-35
So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. . . .

Matthew 26:3, 4, 59-66
At that time, the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, . . .

Acts 5:33
When Council members heard this, they were enraged and wanted to put the apostles to death.

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--

Revelation 18:24
And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.