29"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

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 sons of those who murdered the prophets.

32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

33You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

34Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,

35so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

36Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

37"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!

38See, your house is left to you desolate.

39For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"