Matthew 23:30-34

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,