Matthew 23:33-35

Expanded Bible

³³ “You ·are snakes [serpents]! A ·family of poisonous snakes [^Tbrood/offspring of vipers]! How are you going to escape ·God’s judgment [the sentence/judgment/damnation of hell/Gehenna; 5:22]? ³⁴ ·So I tell you this [For this reason]: I am sending to you prophets and wise men and ·teachers [scribes; experts in the law]. Some of them you will kill and crucify. Some of them you will ·beat [scourge; flog] in your synagogues and ·chase [hunt; persecute] from town to town. ³⁵ So ·you will be guilty for [^Lupon you will come] ·the death of all the good people who have been killed on earth [^Lall the righteous blood shed on the earth]—from the ·murder [^Lblood] of that ·good [righteous] man Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berakiah, whom you murdered between the ·Temple [sanctuary] and the altar [^Cin the book order of the Hebrew Old Testament, Abel (Gen. 4:8) and Zechariah (2 Chr. 24:21) were the first and last men to be murdered].