Matthew 23:29-35

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^29-30 “Yes, woe to you, Pharisees, and you religious leaders—hypocrites! For you build monuments to the prophets killed by your fathers and lay flowers on the graves of the godly men they destroyed, and say, ‘We certainly would never have acted as our fathers did.’

³¹ “In saying that, you are accusing yourselves of being the sons of wicked men. ³² And you are following in their steps, filling up the full measure of their evil. ³³ Snakes! Sons of vipers! How shall you escape the judgment of hell?

³⁴ “I will send you prophets, and wise men, and inspired writers, and you will kill some by crucifixion, and rip open the backs of others with whips in your synagogues, and hound them from city to city, ³⁵ so that you will become guilty of all the blood of murdered godly men from righteous Abel to Zechariah (son of Barachiah), slain by you in the Temple between the altar and the sanctuary.