And say, If we had lived 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 early, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
In vain have I stricken 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 decorate the sepulchers of the righteous,
Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of those who killed the prophets.
Behold Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices sharers in the altar?
And our hope for you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so shall you also be in the consolation.