45. One of the lawyers answered, “Teacher, by saying these things You insult us also.”
46. He said, “Woe to you also, you lawyers! For you load men with burdens difficult to carry, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
47. “Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48. So you are witnesses and entirely approve the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them, and you build their tombs.
49. Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’
50. that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the beginning of the world, may be required from this generation,
51. from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it shall be required from this generation.