Jeremiah 2:20

20 For long ago I abroke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
but you said, b‘I will not serve.’
Yes, con every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down dlike a whore.

Jeremiah 26:8-9

8And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then ethe priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die! 9Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be flike Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, gwithout inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

Matthew 23:31

31Thus you witness against yourselves that you are hsons of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 23:33-37

33You serpents, iyou brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to jhell? 34 kTherefore lI send you mprophets and wise men and nscribes, osome of whom you will kill and crucify, and psome you will qflog in your synagogues and rpersecute from town to town, 35so that on you may come all sthe righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous tAbel to the blood of uZechariah the son of Barachiah,
Some manuscripts omit  the son of Barachiah
whom you murdered between wthe sanctuary and xthe altar.
36Truly, I say to you, yall these things will come upon this generation.

Lament over Jerusalem

37 z“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that aakills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have abgathered acyour children together adas a hen gathers her brood aeunder her wings, and afyou were not willing!

Luke 11:47-51

47 agWoe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. 48 ahSo you are witnesses and you aiconsent to the deeds of ajyour fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. 49Therefore also akthe Wisdom of God said, al‘I will send them amprophets and apostles, ansome of whom they will aokill and persecute,’ 50so that apthe blood of all the prophets, shed aqfrom the foundation of the world, may be archarged against this generation, 51from the blood of asAbel to the blood of atZechariah, who perished between authe altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be avrequired of this generation.

Acts 7:52

52 awWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of axthe Righteous One, aywhom you have now betrayed and murdered,
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