but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
⛓ Read 2 Chronicles 36 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion5
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'They mocked the messengers of God... till the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.' This verse uniquely binds prophet-rejection to the inescapable wrath that 'came upon them to the uttermost' (v. 16), matching both halves of Paul's statement (killing prophets + final wrath). Very strong coherence and volume.
High confidence'Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute?' echoes the chronicler's verdict that they 'mocked the messengers of God... and misused his prophets,' the canonical summary of prophet-killing.
High confidence'Their fathers did the same thing to the prophets' invokes the deuteronomistic tradition of Israel persecuting and killing the prophets, classically summarized in 2 Chronicles 36:16. High Coherence; Luke makes the persecuted-prophet typology explicit.
High confidence"You build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them" rests on the Chronicler's indictment that they "mocked the messengers of God... and scoffed at his prophets" until wrath rose. The murdered-prophets theme of 11:47-50 is summarized exactly here.
High confidenceIsrael mocked and persecuted the prophets; basis for 'so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.'
Medium confidence