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34 “Because of this, behold, I’m sending you prophets and wise men and Torah scholars. Some of them you will kill and execute at the stake, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city. 35 And so, upon you shall come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah,[a] whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar. [b] 36 Amen, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:35 Some mss. omit son of Berechiah.
  2. Matthew 23:36 cf. Gen. 4:8; Zech. 1:1; 2 Chr. 24:21.