and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’
The LORD, the 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;
“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.