²⁹ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

³⁰ Saying, If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have aided them in shedding the blood of the prophets.

³¹ Thus you are testifying against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

³² Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ sins to the brim [so ^[a]that nothing may be wanting to a full measure].

³³ You serpents! You spawn of vipers! How can you escape the ^[b]penalty to be suffered in hell (Gehenna)?

⁵¹ You stubborn and stiff-necked people, still heathen and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are always ^[a]actively resisting the Holy Spirit. As your forefathers [were], so you [are and so you do]!^(A)

⁵² Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? And they slew those who proclaimed beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, Whom you now have betrayed and murdered—