^{47 Ref} Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

^{48 Ref} So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

^{49 Ref} Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will 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 to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.' Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.