¹⁶ But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers,^(A) despising His words,^(B) and scoffing at His prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy.^(C)

¹² Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted^(A) the prophets who were before you.^(B)

³⁵ But the farmers took his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.^(A)

³¹ You, therefore, testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Jesus’ Lamentation over Jerusalem

³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem!^(A) She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks^[a] under her wings, yet you were not willing!^(B)

¹⁵ who killed both the Lord Jesus^(A) and the prophets and persecuted us;^(B) they displease God and are hostile to everyone,