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.
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,
Why you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.