Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

And the farmers took his servants, they beat one, and one they killed, and another they stoned.

And at last he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

"And taking him, they cast [him] out of the vineyard and killed [him].

"So that you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets.

Serpents! Brood of vipers! How shall you escape from the condemnation of hell?

so that on you may come all the righteous blood being shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

And all the people answered and said, "His blood [be] on us and on our children."

Consequently, you bear witness to and approve of the deeds of your fathers; because they indeed killed them, but you build their tombs.

so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required from this generation,

Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it is not possible [for] a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen [gathers] her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you took, and by lawless hands, nailing [Him] to a cross, you killed [Him];

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by this [name] this [man] stands here before you whole.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you murdered by hanging upon a cross.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers,

And Amaziah said to Amos, Go, seer, remove yourself to the land of Judah, and live there, and you shall prophesy there:

and saw Him saying to me, 'Hurry and go out quickly from Jerusalem, for they will not receive your witness about Me.'

And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing by consenting to his murder, and guarding the clothes of those murdering him.'

And seeing that it was pleasing to the Jews, he proceeded further to arrest Peter also (and then were the Days of Unleavened Bread),

But with the majority of them God was not pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

And he spoke to King Artaxerxes, saying, There is a nation scattered among the nations in all your kingdom, and their laws differ from [those of] all the [other] nations; and they disobey the laws of the king. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them alone.

Woe to you lawyers! Because you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter in, and those who were entering in you hindered."

And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be dreadfully hostile, and to cross-examine Him about many things,