²⁵ And all the people answered and said, ^(A)“His blood be on us and on our children.”

²⁸ saying, ^(A)“Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, ^(B)and intend to bring this Man’s ^(C)blood on us!”

¹⁹ So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be ^[a]guiltless. And whoever is with you in the house, ^(A)his ^[b]blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him.

^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,

^10 (A)lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

^15 (A)who killed both the Lord Jesus and ^(B)their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God ^(C)and are ^[a]contrary to all men, ^16 (D)forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always ^(E)to fill up the measure of their sins; ^(F)but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

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!

³³ So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood ^(A)defiles the land, and no ^[a]atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except ^(B)by the blood of him who shed it.

²⁸ Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three ^(A)witnesses. ^29 (B)Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, ^(C)counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, ^(D)and insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know Him who said, ^(E)“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” ^[a]says the Lord. And again, ^(F)“The Lord will judge His people.”