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

¹⁰ Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.

⁵¹ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

⁵² Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

³¹ Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

³⁵ And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

³⁶ Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them in like manner.

³⁷ But afterward he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.

³⁸ But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance.

¹⁹ Yet say ye, Wherefore doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? when the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

⁸ So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

⁶ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

¹⁶ but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Jehovah arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

²² And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you Jehovah, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

³⁵ Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

³⁶ and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

³⁷ they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.