Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

¹³ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!^(A) You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.^(B)

³³ “You snakes! You brood of vipers!^(A) How will you escape being condemned to hell?^{(B) 34} Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify;^(C) others you will flog in your synagogues^(D) and pursue from town to town.^{(E) 35} And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel^(F) to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah,^(G) whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.^{(H) 36} Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.^(I)