Matthew 23:29–39

^29v“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and ⁴adorn the monuments of the righteous, ³⁰and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

³¹“Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that ^wyou are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ^32xFill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt. ³³Serpents, ^ybrood ⁵of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? ^34zTherefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: ^asome of them you will kill and crucify, and ^bsome of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, ^35cthat on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, ^dfrom the blood of righteous Abel to ^ethe blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Jesus Laments Over Jerusalem

^37f“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets ^gand stones those who are sent to her! How often ^hI wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks ⁱunder her wings, but you were not willing! ³⁸See! Your house is left to you desolate; ³⁹for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ^j‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”