Matthew 23:29–39

²⁹“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because 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 fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets!’ ³¹Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets! ³²And you—fill up the measure of your fathers! ³³Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell? ³⁴For this reason, behold, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will pursue from town to town, ³⁵so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation!

The Lament over Jerusalem

³⁷“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together the way^j a hen gathers her young together under her^* wings, and you were not willing! ³⁸Behold, your house has been left to you desolate! ³⁹For I tell you, you will never see me from now on until you say,

‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”^k