Moffatt(i)
45 One of the jurists said to him, "Teacher, when you say this you are insulting us as well."
46 He said, "And woe to you jurists! you load men with irksome burdens, and you will not put a single finger to their burdens.
47 Woe to you! you build tombs for the prophets whom your own fathers killed:
48 thus you testify and consent to what your fathers did, for they killed and you build.
49 This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some they will kill and some they will persecute';
50 it was that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world might be charged upon this generation,
51 from the blood of Abel down to the blood of Zechariah who was slain between the altar and the House of God — yes, I tell you, it will all be charged upon this generation.
52 Woe to you jurists! you have taken the key that unlocks the door of knowledge; you have not entered yourselves, and you have stopped those who were entering."
53 After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points,
54 lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.