Why does Jesus call Abel a prophet?

[eclipsoul]

"Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the
prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, from the
blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar
and the sanctuary."
- Luke 11:50-51

Is Abel a prophet of Christ?

"Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him."
- Genesis 4:15

Is Abel is a prophet of peace?

 

[IrishJohan]

"Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the
prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, from the
blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar
and the sanctuary."
- Luke 11:50-51

The violent deaths of both men, considered righteous before the Lord, is what testifies to Christ and His Crucifixion. It is because they were both slain and the latter in such a very sacriligeous manner (ie in the Temple) that there murders were so horrifying to Jews. To put it simply, the murder of Abel brought this sin into the world for the first time. The murder of Zechariah (I argue that of 2 Chronicles) in the Holy Temple was believed to be a defilement of God's Holy Place and brought about the destruction of the First Temple.

Pax Christi,
John

 

[JohnJones]

Heb 11:4 "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh."

Heb 12:22-24 "But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel."

 

[StaySalty]

Heb 11:4 "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh."

Heb 12:22-24 "But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel."

good reference.