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Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
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So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build [their tombs].
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Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and [some] of them they shall 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 unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.
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Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
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And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things;
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laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.