Matthew 23:28–36
28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.↗
29“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous,↗
30and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’↗
31Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.↗
32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.↗
33You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?↗
34Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,↗
35that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.↗
36Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.↗
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