^{48 Ref} Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;

^{49 Ref} because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,

^{50 Ref} that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;

^{51 Ref} from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.

^{52 Ref} `Wo to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

^{53 Ref} And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,