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because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,
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that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;
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from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.
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`Wo to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'
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And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,
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laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.