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.
52. “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.”
53. As He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to incite Him vehemently and angrily draw Him out concerning many things,
54. lying in wait for Him and seeking to catch something out of His mouth, that they might accuse Him.