There is ample evidence throughout Scripture that Jewish people were repeatedly responsible for the deaths of the prophets (1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14; Nehemiah 9:26; Jeremiah 26:20–24; Luke 6:23; Luke 11:49; Luke 13:34; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; Hebrews 11:36–38). Stephen takes up and repeats this accusation.1
52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,