Matthew 23:29–39

²⁹“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, ³⁰and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we wouldn’t have taken part with them in shedding the prophets’ blood.’ ³¹So you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets. ³²Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors’ sins!^c

³³“Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?^{Dd 34}This is why I am sending you prophets,^e sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues^f and pursue from town to town. ³⁵So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you,^E from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah,^g son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.^{h 36}Truly I tell you, all these things will come on this generation.ⁱ

JESUS’S LAMENTING OVER JERUSALEM

³⁷“Jerusalem, Jerusalem,^j who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks^F under her wings, but you were not willing!^{k 38}See, your house is left to you desolate.^{l 39}For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord’!”^Gm