Matthew 23:29-36

29“Woe to you, [self-righteous] scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets and decorate and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

30and you say, ‘If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

31So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

32Fill up, then, the [allotted] measure of the guilt of your fathers’ sins.

33You serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell?

34“Therefore, take notice, I am sending you prophets and wise men [interpreters, teachers] and scribes [men educated in the Mosaic Law and the writings of the prophets]; some of them you will kill and even crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues, and pursue and persecute from city to city,

35so that on you will come the guilt of all the blood of the righteous shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah [the priest], the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

36I assure you and most solemnly say to you, [the judgment for] all these things [these vile and murderous deeds] will come on this generation.