saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised on the third day.”

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.

So you are witnesses and you approve of the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.

For this reason also, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and some they will persecute,

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.’

“Now I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.

But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed someone, has the power to throw that person into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!

Or do you think that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse offenders than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?

At that very time some Pharisees approached, saying to Him, “Go away and leave this place, because Herod wants to kill You.”

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her young under her wings, and you were unwilling!

and after they have flogged Him, they will kill Him; and on the third day He will rise.”

But when the vine-growers saw him, they discussed with one another, saying, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him so that the inheritance will be ours.’

And so they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do to them?