Matthew 23:30-37
30saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31Thus you witness against yourselves that you are asons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 bFill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33You serpents, cyou brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to dhell? 34 eTherefore fI send you gprophets and wise men and hscribes, isome of whom you will kill and crucify, and jsome you will kflog in your synagogues and lpersecute from town to town, 35so that on you may come all mthe righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous nAbel to the blood of oZechariah the son of Barachiah, ▼▼Some manuscripts omit the son of Barachiah
whom you murdered between qthe sanctuary and rthe altar. 36Truly, I say to you, sall these things will come upon this generation. Lament over Jerusalem
37 t“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that ukills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have vgathered wyour children together xas a hen gathers her brood yunder her wings, and zyou were not willing!Acts 7:52
52 aaWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of abthe Righteous One, acwhom you have now betrayed and murdered,1 Thessalonians 2:2
2But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated adat Philippi, as you know, aewe had boldness in our God afto declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much agconflict.Hebrews 11:36-37
36Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even ahchains and imprisonment. 37 aiThey were stoned, they were sawn in two, ▼▼Some manuscripts add they were tempted
akthey were killed with the sword. alThey went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—
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