¹¹ Again he sent another servant; and they beat him also, treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.

³⁶ Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and ^(A)of chains and imprisonment. ^37 (B)They were stoned, they were sawn in two, ^[a]were tempted, were slain with the sword. ^(C)They wandered about ^(D)in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—

² But ^[a]even after we had suffered before and were spitefully treated at ^(A)Philippi, as you know, we were ^(B)bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict.

^52 (A)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of ^(B)the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

³⁰ and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

³¹ “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that ^(A)you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ^32 (B)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt. ³³ Serpents, ^(C)brood^[a] of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? ^34 (D)Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: ^(E)some of them you will kill and crucify, and ^(F)some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, ^35 (G)that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, ^(H)from the blood of righteous Abel to ^(I)the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Jesus Laments over Jerusalem^(J)

^37 (K)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets ^(L)and stones those who are sent to her! How often ^(M)I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks ^(N)under her wings, but you were not willing!

Israel’s Sin and Captivity