46 Then he said, “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdensq that are hard to carry, and yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.r

47 “Woe to you! You build tombsG for the prophets,s and your fathers killedt them. 48 Therefore, you are witnessesu that you approveH,v the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.I 49 Because of this, the wisdom of Godw said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles,x and some of them they will kill and persecute,’y 50 so that this generationz may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the worldJ,aa—51 from the blood of Abelab to the blood of Zechariah,ac who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.

“Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.K

52 “Woe to you experts in the law! You have taken away the key to knowledge.ad You didn’t go in yourselves, and you hinderedae those who were trying to go in.”

53 When he left there,L the scribes and the Pharisees began to opposeaf him fiercely and to cross-examine him about many things;