32. So keep on doing everything they did.
33. You are nothing but snakes and the children of snakes! How can you escape going to hell?
34. I will send prophets and wise people and experts in the Law of Moses to you. But you will kill them or nail them to a cross or beat them in your meeting places or chase them from town to town.
35. That's why you will be held guilty for the murder of every good person, beginning with the good man Abel. This also includes Barachiah's son Zechariah, the man you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36. I can promise that you people living today will be punished for all these things!
37. Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Your people have killed the prophets and have stoned the messengers who were sent to you. I have often wanted to gather your people, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But you wouldn't let me.
38. And now your temple will be deserted.
39. You won't see me again until you say,“Blessed is the one who comesin the name of the Lord.”