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For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles: and some of them they will 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 Zacharias, who was slain between the altar and the temple. Yea I say to you: It shall be required of this generation.
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Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered in: and those that were entering in, you have hindered.
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And as he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the lawyers began violently to urge him and to oppress his mouth about many things,
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Lying in wait for him and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.