Luke 11:50
Good News Translation
So the people of this time will be punished for the murder of all the prophets killed since the creation of the world,

New Revised Standard Version
so that this generation may be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world,

Contemporary English Version
You people living today will be punished for all the prophets who have been murdered since the beginning of the world.

New American Bible
in order that this generation might be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world,

Douay-Rheims Bible
That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

the blood.

Genesis 9:5,6 For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man. . . .

Numbers 35:33 Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.

2 Kings 24:4 And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.

Psalm 9:12 For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

Isaiah 26:21 For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.

Revelation 18:20-24 Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. For God hath judged your judgment on her. . . .

may.

Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Jeremiah 7:29 Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a lamentation on high: for the Lord hath rejected, and forsaken the generation of his wrath,

Jeremiah 51:56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the Lord, who is a strong revenger, will surely repay.

Context
Woes to Religious Leaders
49For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles: and some of them they will kill and persecute. 50That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, 51From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who was slain between the altar and the temple. Yea I say to you: It shall be required of this generation.…
Cross References
Genesis 4:2
And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman.

Isaiah 26:21
For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.

Matthew 25:34
Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Luke 11:49
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