Luke 11: 47 - 54
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| 47
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Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.
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| 48
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So you are witnesses and consent to the deeds of your fathers; for they killed them, and you build their tombs.
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| 49
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Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, `I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,'
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| 50
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that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,
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| 51
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from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechari'ah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it shall be required of this generation.
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| 52
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Woe to you lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering."
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| 53
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As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard, and to provoke him to speak of many things,
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| 54
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lying in wait for him, to catch at something he might say.
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