Matthew 23:29-39
Read Matthew 23 in full →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 3,bhell?
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!’”