28. In the same way, you appear righteous to men on the outside, but are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29. “Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the tzaddikim.
30. And you say, ‘If we’d been alive in the days of our forefathers, we wouldn’t have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
31. So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
32. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers!
33. O snakes, you brood of vipers! How will you escape the condemnation of Gehenna?
34. “Because of this, behold, I’m sending you prophets and wise men and Torah scholars. Some of them you will kill and execute at the stake, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.
35. And so, upon you shall come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
36. Amen, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.”
37. “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
38. Look, your house is left to you desolate!
39. For I tell you, you will never see Me again until you say, ‘ Baruch ha-ba b’shem Adonai. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’”