Quotes about Tragedy
And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.
- Amos 6:9
Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—
- Nahum 3:3
On that day the wailing in Jerusalem will be as great as the wailing of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
- Zechariah 12:11
When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.
- Matthew 2:16
and sent to have John beheaded in the prison.
- Matthew 14:10
John’s head was brought in on a platter and presented to the girl, who carried it to her mother.
- Matthew 14:11
The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
- Matthew 22:6
So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
- Matthew 27:5
Then she went out and asked her mother, “What should I request?” And her mother answered, “The head of John the Baptist.”
- Mark 6:24
The man brought John’s head on a platter and presented it to the girl, who gave it to her mother.
- Mark 6:28
Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?
- Luke 13:4
and the third married the widow, and in the same way all seven died, leaving no children.
- Luke 20:31