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Go ahead then, finish what your fathers started!
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"You snakes! Sons of snakes! How can you escape being condemned to Gei Hinnom?
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Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and Torah-teachers -- some of them you will kill, indeed, you will have them executed on stakes as criminals; some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.
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And so, on you will fall the guilt for all the innocent blood that has ever been shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Hevel to the blood of Z'kharyah Ben-Berekhyah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
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Yes! I tell you that all this will fall on this generation
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"Yerushalayim! Yerushalayim! You kill the prophets! You stone those who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!
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Look! God is abandoning your house to you, leaving it desolate
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For I tell you, from now on, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of ADONAI.'"