Luke 11:49

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and some of them they shall kill and persecute.

There is no need to suppose that Jesus here quoted from "some lost Jewish apocryphal book";[49] for only Jesus promised and sent out apostles. It is therefore Jesus' "roundabout way of referring to himself[50] "The words are an utterance of Christ himself (Matthew 23:34); Christ's knowledge of the divine counsels is so complete that his utterances are also utterances of the wisdom of God.[51] Jesus' employment of the third person emphasizes the prophetic nature of his words. He saw in the evil character of his hearers the certainty of their hatred and murder of the holy apostles.

[49] S. MacLean Gilmour, op. cit., p. 218.

[50] Ray Summers, op. cit., p. 150.

[51] J. R. Dummelow, op. cit., p. 753.