Matthew 23:29–39

²⁹“^aWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

³⁰and say, ‘If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

³¹“So you bear witness against yourselves, that you ^aare ¹sons of those who murdered the prophets.

³²“Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.

³³“You serpents, ^ayou brood of vipers, how ¹will you escape the ²sentence of ^3bhell?

³⁴“^aOn account of this, behold, ^bI am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will ^cflog in your synagogues, and ^dpersecute from city to city,

³⁵so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous ^aAbel to the blood of Zechariah, the ^bson of Berechiah, whom ^cyou murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

³⁶“Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon ^athis generation.

Lament over Jerusalem

³⁷“^aJerusalem, Jerusalem, who ^bkills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, ^cthe way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you did not want it.

³⁸“Behold, ^ayour house is being left to you desolate!

³⁹“For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, ‘^aBlessed is He who comes in the name of the ¹Lord!’”