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 word to them by his messengers, sending them time and again; 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 unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous,
Therefore you are witnesses unto yourselves, that you are the children of them who killed the prophets.
Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they who 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.