^{48 Ref} So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build `their tombs'.

^{49 Ref} Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and `some' of them they shall kill and persecute;

^{50 Ref} that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

^{51 Ref} from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.

^{52 Ref} Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

^{53 Ref} And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon `him' vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things;