thus you testify and consent to what your fathers did, for they killed and you build.
As an example of fortitude and endurance, brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
So you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those who killed the prophets!
Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you are like tombs white-washed; they look comely on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all manner of impurity.
Woe to you! you build tombs for the prophets whom your own fathers killed:
This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some they will kill and some they will persecute';
though they know God's decree that people who practise such vice deserve death, they not only do it themselves but applaud those who practise it.