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

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

⁵¹ "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

⁵² Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

³¹ Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

³⁵ The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

³⁶ Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

³⁷ But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

³⁸ But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'

¹⁹ Yet say you, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

⁸ Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.

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

²² Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you Yahweh, to serve him. They said, We are witnesses.

³⁵ Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

³⁶ Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

³⁷ They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

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