³⁰ If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.

¹⁵ And the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them by his servants, sending early and frequently, because he had pity on his people and on his living-place;

³⁰ I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

³⁵ And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.

³⁶ Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.

³⁴ For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

³⁵ So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.