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"So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.
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"For thisreasonalso1the wisdom of Godsaid, '2I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute,
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so that the blood of all the prophets, shed3since the foundation of the world, may be chargedagainstthisgeneration,
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from 4the blood of Abel to 5the blood of Zechariah, who was killedbetween the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be chargedagainstthisgeneration.'
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"Woe to you 6lawyers! For you have takenaway the key of knowledge; 7you yourselves did not enter, and you hinderedthose who were entering."
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When He leftthere, the scribes and the Phariseesbegan to be veryhostile and to question Him closely on manysubjects,
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8plottingagainst Him 9to catch Him in something He might say*.