Luke 11:47-54 ▼

47 How terrible it will be for you! You build monuments for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them!

48 So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed those for whom you are building monuments.

49 That is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles. They will kill some of them and persecute others,'

50 so those living today will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that was shed since the foundation of the world,

51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who died between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation!

52 How terrible it will be for you experts in the Law! You have taken away the key to knowledge. You didn't go in yourselves, and you kept out those who were trying to go in.|

53 As Jesus was leaving, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose him fiercely, interrogating him about many things.

54 They watched him closely in an effort to trap him in something he might say.