Matthew 23:29-39 ▼

29 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites: ye builde the tombes of the Prophetes, and garnishe the sepulchres of the ryghteous:

30 And say, yf we had ben in the dayes of our fathers, we woulde not haue ben parteners with them in the blood of the prophetes.

31 And so ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the chyldren of them which kylled the prophetes.

32 Fulfyll ye lykewyse, the measure of your fathers.

33 Ye serpentes, ye generation of vipers, howe wyll ye escape the dampnation of hell?

34 Wherfore, beholde I sende vnto you prophetes, and wyse men, and Scribes, and some of them ye shall kyll and crucifie: and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from citie to citie.

35 That vpon you may come all the ryghteous blood, which hath ben shed vpon the earth, from the blood of ryghteous Abel, vnto the blood of Zacharias, sonne of Barachias, whom ye slewe betwene the temple & the aulter.

36 Ueryly I say vnto you: all these thynges shal come vpon this generatio.

37 O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, thou that kyllest the prophetes, and stonest them which are sent vnto thee: Howe often woulde I haue gathered thy chyldren together, euen as the henne gathereth her chickens vnder her wynges, and ye woulde not?

38 Beholde, your house is left vnto you desolate.

39 For I say vnto you: ye shall not see me hencefoorth, tyll that ye say, blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lorde.