Murder Most Foul.

Jesus said: "'Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.....(but).....you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.'"  Matthew 23:29-31 (NRSV) 

And this is what happens.

When they have killed the prophet they appropriate his name and take back his authority for themselves.

As Jesus' priests did at Nicaea.

"'Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, "I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill, and persecute.'"'  Luke 11:49 (NRSV)

And so it is.

From the blood of JFK to the blood of Martin Luther King Jnr...

The powers of the world will kill the prophets and smear their names.

With the blessings of the Church.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved,]

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