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Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the sepulchres of the righteous
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and 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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Therefore ye are witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
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Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
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Ye serpents,
ye generation of vipers, how can 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 shall kill and crucify, and
some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute
them from city to city,
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that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye murdered 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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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
thou that didst kill the prophets and stone those who are sent unto thee, how often I desired to gather thy children together, even 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.