²⁹‘Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous, 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. ³¹So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets; ³²and ye—ye fill up the measure of your fathers.

³³‘Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

³⁴‘Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; ³⁵that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar: ³⁶verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

³⁷‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will. ³⁸Lo, left desolate to you is your house; ³⁹for I say to you, ye may not see me henceforth, till ye may say, Blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord.’

Chapter 24

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