and you say 'If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the just,
So you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those who killed the prophets!
Look at the rites of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
Hence my hope for you is well-founded, since I know that as you share the sufferings you share the comfort also.