Twentieth_Century(i)
30 and say 'Had we been living in the days of our ancestors, we should have taken part in their murder of the Prophets!
31 By doing this you are furnishing evidence against yourselves that you are true children of the men who murdered the Prophets.
32 Fill up the measure of your ancestor's guilt.
33 You serpents and brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to the Pit?
34 That is why I send you Prophets, wise men, and Teachers of the Law, some of whom you will crucify and kill, and some of whom you will scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from town to town;
35 in order that upon your heads may fall every drop of innocent 'blood split on earth,' from the blood of innocent Abel down to that of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
36 All this, I tell you, will come home to the present generation.
37 Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who slays the Prophets and stones the messengers sent to her--Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children round me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not came!