Zechariah 1:4-5

4 aDo not be like your fathers, bto whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, cReturn from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But dthey did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. 5Your fathers, where are they? And ethe prophets, do they live forever?

Matthew 23:30-33

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 fsons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 gFill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33You serpents, hyou brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to ihell?

Acts 7:51-52

51 j“You stiff-necked people, kuncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. lAs your fathers did, so do you. 52 mWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of nthe Righteous One, owhom you have now betrayed and murdered,
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