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Thus also *ye*, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just,
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and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
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So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:
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and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.
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Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?
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Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;
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so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
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Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
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Behold, your house is left unto you desolate