Matthew 23:29-36

Worldwide English (New Testament)

²⁹ `You scribes and Pharisees will have trouble. You who are not true to yourselves! You build places to bury the prophets and fix up graves of good men.

³⁰ You say, "If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have helped to kill the prophets of God."

³¹ So you prove that you are the sons of the men who killed the prophets.

³² Finish doing what your fathers started to do.

³³ You snakes - a whole family of snakes! You cannot get away! You will be judged and sent to hell.

³⁴ That is why I send you prophets, wise men, and teachers. You will kill some of them and nail them to a cross. And you will beat some of them in your meeting houses and trouble them from one town to another.

³⁵ So you will be punished for all the blood of every good man that is on the ground. I mean all the blood from the time of Abel, who was a good man, to Zechariah, the son of Barachiah. You killed him between the temple and God's altar.

³⁶ I tell you the truth. The people who are still living now will be punished for all these things.