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In fact, you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.
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Therefore the wisdom of God also said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,'
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that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
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from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.
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Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered."
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And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to assail Him vehemently, and to cross-examine Him about many things,
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lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something He might say, that they might accuse Him.