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49 For this reason the wisdom of God also said, ‘I will send-forth prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and persecute, 50 in order that the blood of all the prophets having been shed since the foundation of the world may be required[a] from this generation— 51 from the blood of Abel up to the blood of Zechariah[b], the one having perished between the altar and the house [of God]. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required from this generation’.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:50 That is, so that the blood-guilt of your fathers may be avenged on you as you repeat their crimes on those I will send to you.
  2. Luke 11:51 That is, the first and last murder recorded in the OT in the Hebrew order of books.

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