Matthew 23:29–39

²⁹Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just,

³⁰And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

³¹Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

³²Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

³³You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

³⁴Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.

³⁵That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

³⁶Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

³⁷Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?

³⁸Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate.

³⁹For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.